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Last night, my annual stay in Munchkinland commenced. For your information, I\u2019m not really in Munchkinland. It\u2019s the Riverview Bible Camp in Cedar Falls, where the Iowa Christian Writers\u2019 Conference is held. I\u2019s also where I attended church camp as a kid.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where Munchkinland comes in. Numerous decades ago, and don\u2019t ask how many decades or you won\u2019t be my friend anymore, this campground was absolutely humongous. I spent the first half of every camp week worrying about getting lost and never finding the way back to my cabin. Also, the cabins were palatial, gigantic edifices, one of which I was sure, was used as the model for the Beverly Hillbillies mansion. And the swimming pool, well, it was as glamourous and enticing as the hillbillies\u2019 cement pond. As an added benefit, it required no admission, and the admission price as the local pool back home was the major reason Mom said we couldn\u2019t go swimming most days all summer long.<\/p>\n

My annual three days at the yearly writers\u2019 conferences show me what a Munchkin I was back then. On my morning walks, I circle the camp\u2019s circumference, all four blocks, in less than ten minutes. Why did I think I would get lost in such a tiny place all those nebulous decades ago? These days the cabins don\u2019t look like mansions, more like children\u2019s playhouses. And the aging swimming pool, which might be enticing on a hot day, comes across as more pathetic than glamourous.<\/p>\n

Tiny as the campground is, a certain we\u2019re-not-in-Kansas-anymore charm lingers around the edges of the place. Somewhere in the shadows, where the scent of flowers collects and the air is cool, the voices of my childhood beckon. In the presence of their light and lilting music, I am once again over the rainbow in a magical place, small and safe from all harm. I am, this undetermined number of decades later, home again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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