Venture #2 | Tawn Jewkes

(It was definitely a hot day. Too hot to be walking around Canyon Park looking for a college class might I add? The whole time I was walking around I was wondering if it was some sort of sick joke the class was playing on us freshman. Ok, now since that is out of the way…)

In a quiet trance, I stare at a family having a barbecue luncheon. The sizzle of the juicy burgers and the smell of the beef from the rising, steam vapors fills my nostrils. I hear a drip from the one of the burgers into the orange flame below, followed by a quick, split second sizzle. My attention is turned to three teenaged girls sitting on a blanket in the shade giggling, probably about boys. All three faces are smiling and lit up with laughter. I then notice the parents and grandparents. One father takes a baby from her mother and tosses her into the air over and over again as she squeals and grins with her two baby teeth coming into her soft, baby gums. I never knew so much went on at a simple family barbecue.