It Is A Windy Saturday Here In My Neck Of The Woods: A Freewrite

in #life4 years ago

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The winds are shifting here in my place, it is not cool but breezy and I bet that in the evening it might get cool again. I think that the weather is trying to change now, we had a lot of cool nights already but it seems that last year it was cooler because I remember my father wearing jogging pants because it was cold even during the day last year.

I don't know why some kids nowadays doesn't fly kites anymore, they just are zeroed in to their modern day gadgets which in my imagination one score years ago will not appear and yet even little kids have smartphones already.

Anyway when I was just a little boy I would go with my eldest brother when he flies a kite that he himself had fashioned. I learned that to make a better kite you must make it well-balanced. So he shaves slivers of wood from the bamboo stick, wrap it with some plastic, and puts a tail at its back side to make it stable in the air.

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Indeed he made that kite to soar up in the sky like it has a life of its own and if only we had a came back then maybe we had made a photo of ourselves flying that mighty kite of my brother. Soon the lines broke off and the kite went so far away that we could not retrieve it anymore, that was the end of the season of kite flying for us.

When we were young there are so many seasons (not the weather) that got involved in, the season of fishing, the season of frog baiting, the season of tops playing, and there was this thing about "touching coins" where every participant would try to bounce their coins as far away as possible form the wall.

The one that had made it father would get the chance to at least make their coins to touch their opponent's coin if they were not able to they will lose their coin and the other opponent would then get the chance to do the same to another opponent.

It was an invented game that they called "Palmo." I haven't involved myself with it because I am just very young then and I have no money, I just watch my eldest brother paly it with our friends. The memory of it really is nice to reminisce, we were much active relative to the kids today even though I am always in the sideline watching my eldest brother or just accompanying him wherever he goes and those were some of the finest days of us being kids.

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