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Wisconsin Watercolor

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Wisconsin Watercolor I stared at the water as the boat sped across Lake Flambeau. It barely rippled as we glided across its surface. We left behind choppy waves moving outward in our wake, but ahead of us the water’s stillness mirrored the white puffy cumulus clouds perfectly as they floated lazily overhead. Northern Wisconsin is in my blood. Every time I return to this place I feel it as sure as I can feel the chill of the Flambeau on my skin. This was the water my great uncles fished in as boys. My grandmother likely necked with boys on its banks before jumping into one doomed marriage after another. My great grandmother owned a restaurant in the nearby town of Ladysmith, and a home eight miles up the road in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it village called Glen Flora. All but one of them are buried in Riverside Cemetery just yards from the gently rolling River Flambeau that feeds the very lake on the shore of which my cousins’ summer home now stands. It was a perfect August day on the lake. It was not too hot, not too cold. The sun was shining and my family was all together. These were the people who knew me even before I knew myself. We are all so vastly different in so many ways. In fact, DNA testing unearthed long-buried family secrets revealing that we are barely blood relations at all - and yet we feel tied to each other through a shared experience on this earth, memories of those who’ve come before us, and the fact that we have never known anything but this. So, family we are and will be as long as we remain beneath the clouds.

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wisconsin