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Summer Toonie
Fathers Day, 2016
Matt 18:6 ESV
If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and thrown to the bottom of the sea.
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It seemed like I'd waited forever. She was always the last one out. But the sight of her running towards the car, erased any presence of irritation. She had her usual smile and an unbridled enthusiasm, that highlighted her engaging personality. She tossed her backpack into the small area behind the seats and buckled herself in. She leaned over and touched me briefly on the forearm, her version of a kiss. She reached for the volume as we pulled out into the street and headed for Qualicum, '' Marc Jordan' now blaring. She knew the Corvette was a company vehicle, but to Robyn, every minute she spent in it was hers. I looked over at her several times, at the perfect mahogany hair and the erasable smile, and my heart surged with love that only a parent could feel.
It wasn't till we reached the bottom of the hill in Nanoose Bay, that she reached for the volume and gave me that look. The one that suggested that she was just about to outsmart me. "If summer was a Toonie, how much money would I have left"?. ( I'd smiled at her uncanny memory. I'd forgotten about the Summer Toonie ).
Since before I could remember, Robyns summers at the Qualicum house, had been summarized by the Canadian Toonie, our 2 dollar coin. Without getting technical, we'd rounded off the summer into 8 weeks. There were 8 quarters to a Toonie, each representing a single week. The more of the Toonie that Robyn had left, the better.
( I remembered asking her a summer or 2 before, just as we neared the September long weekend, how much of her Toonie she had left. She'd looked at me unamused, before angrily insisting that from that day on, I NEVER again asked about her Summer Toonie, with so few days left to enjoy ).
"Well... You'd have the whole Toonie of course" i'd answered. "Your summers just starting today". "Wrong!" she announced victoriously. She'd anticipated my answer and couldn't wait to counter it. " Its only June 17th and there's no school till September 5th. That means I have more than a Toonie, and my Toonie doesn't start till July 1st". Her hair was blowing freely, as the Corvette dipped down the hill, and into Nanoose Bay. Her smile suggested that she was most certainly one of the smartest human beings on the entire planet; a cocky, yet entirely endearing little soul.
We started the short climb up the Nanoose hill towards Parksville during which she started an old routine. She took her index finger and began rubbing her chin as though in incredibly deep thought. I returned the gesture and we continued this absurdly exaggerated pretense all the way up the hill and then left, into the Go Cart Track. Even parked, we spent a few more seconds continuing this charade as though the final decision to hop into the GoCarts was still up in the air.
I remember how her hand felt, as we walked towards the ramshackle office that administered the Track. So small and so soft, a kind of extension of myself. She had to ride with me then, but it didn't seem to deter her excitement.
After all, it was the first day of summer break, Robyns most spectacular time of the year, and she was on her way to her favorite place in the world. The Qualicum Beach cottage would be her home for the next 10 weeks.
And today she wouldn't draw a penny, from her Summer Toonie.
dRae
1994
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