Robert K. Otani's "Transformative Kayak"
Governors Island, NY from my 2011 archive
June 9, 2011
Hammock
Geez, it was hot yesterday. It was roughly 93 degrees with 30 percent humidity. By 10am, it was already 86 degrees...it was a long day. All I needed was a hammock and a shady tree. In that dream, an imaginary outdoor air conditioner would have also been nice along with a bottomless glass of iced tea.
I went to
Governors Island this past weekend and spotted a set of hammocks in an art installation from afar. As I approached, there was a preteen with a football physique also approaching the same hammock. I was slightly faster than him, so he diverted to the next hammock. He stepped up his gait, then excitedly plopped into the hammock.
Rip!
He immediately sprang to his feet and walked towards his family blushing and waving his hands warning them not to sit in the hammock. I felt bad for him and
really bad for the artist. But--I could not stop laughing. I tried hard to hold it in, but sometimes funny is funny.
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