What is your happiest memory?

Question

An interesting exercise suggested by Elizabeth J. Andrew in Writing the Sacred Journey: The Art and Practice of Spiritual Memoir. She suggested “Write your happiest memory.”

My happiest memory immediately sprang to mind. And after that, a plethora of happy memories but the initial one that came to mind held its ground as the happiest.

My Happiest Memory

I think it was the summer Jon turned ten and Gloria would soon be seven. We were camped on Pen Lake at the first campsite past the portage from Rock Lake in Algonquin Park. One morning, after resting up from getting there, we explored the gently sloping hill behind our campsite. Eventually we came to a rock face which we climbed together. I was helping Gloria especially and Jon was able to push on ahead and help to haul Gloria up by a rope. I’m pretty sure that I had my camera along. I’ll have to find those pictures.
When we reached the top we were able to walk along the top of the cliff for a couple of kilometers with an occasional view down to the lake below. Gloria found blueberries and picked them.

Answer 1

How about this...it's a little bit deeper than your question but once i was asked what room in the house that you lived in was your favorite..of course we all move a few times in our lives so of course it would have to be the house that you enjoyed living in the most....I would have to say i loved the room upstairs that my sister and i would go into of course it was the forbidden room because our parents kind of made it their storage room..we would play records and get into things it was kind of like a curiosity shop! I was about 11 and she was 6. We are now 44 and 49 but I was quite depressed as a child because we always moved when i made friends....so i felt lonely but that was the best time of my life if i had to pick had a lot of friends and we had a woods behind our house and all of us would go there and climb trees and explore birds nests and check on them because they would be eggs and then you would check again and they would be hatched. I have always loved nature and that is certainly one of my happiest memories!