sunset in Finland
The twins-Caitlin and Jon
This note from Karen, in Pennsylvania:
I love these photos of my twins, Caitlin and Jon, who were 20 at the
time and living in Somerset, Pennsylvania, USA. When these photos
were taken, during the Summer of 2007, we were visiting the family of
Annastiina, an exchange student from Finland who had lived with us in
the states a couple years prior. We’d spent a magical day with her
gracious family at their summer cottage on a beautifully pristine lake
near Nurmes, Finland, the land of 10,000 lakes.
Jon said, “I felt joyous at the time because we’d just come from the
hot sauna and needed some refreshing water. I like not knowing what
to expect when you hit bottom, but knowing you’re going to hit some
freezing water first–there’s some risk to that.”
For Caitlin, leaping was the easiest way to approach freezing
water–”It was such a rush!”
I enjoyed (and still do) the sheer pleasure on their faces during that
suspended moment when the language of joy reads the same in any
culture.
