Oak Road Park in Fairfield, New Jersey has a tarred, somewhat circular trail, and walking it will take 3 - 5 minutes depending on the individual.
It also has a tiny playground for children, benches for sitting, and a picnic table for those seeking to maybe rest a while and have something to eat. On a recent Sunday afternoon, after I picked up my daughter from her weekend job, I learned she was gifted with a few extra pieces of ice creamed birthday cake from a party that day. It being a warm day, the cake - already liquidizing - would not have survived the 15 minutes, 12 mile drive home in stop-and-go traffic. So, we elected to visit Oak Road Park, a spot where I have occasionally stopped at and taken a brief stroll, and enjoy the somewhat-still-frozen delight while it still "lived." There was something very special in that 20 minutes we spent together, eating ice cream cake and talking, enjoying a park that was desolate except for us, a cat in the distance, and occasional bird soaring to branches in the trees not destroyed by weather or age. It was a very nice, impromptu, Daddy and Daughter brief sojourn. 20 minutes of quality time where we ate, talked about the serenity of the small park, and pretty much just enjoyed being together; me, away from my writing desk for the day, and she with her couple of hours of work concluded, looking for a few days of rest before returning to work again. It was so very simple, but at the same time so very special. Steve
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Steve Sears is a New Jersey based freelance writer
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