Robert Kovacs

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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“BEING THE LIGHT IN SOMEONE’S DARKNESS” by Robert Kovacs

Submitted to Contest #264

I've prepared for your imminent retirement which was originally planned for April 2020, but that is also the same time the world was starting a shutdown due to Covid. You decided to stay and ride out the tidal wave of unchartered waters and ride the wave as a first-rated surfer not sure of not the just what, but when will the next wave will hit. Your fiscal austerity guided our YMCA athough these difficult times and just over two years, we may not be fully out of the impact of the pandemic, but there is light being seen with our me...

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“GO AHEAD, YOU FIRST,... ONCE UPON A SUMMER... ” by Robert Kovacs

Submitted to Contest #203

Dear YMCA Camp Director, I am trying really hard not to be emotional and ramble on, but please forgive me, as this is the first time my child will be left with anyone but family or school. I hope I made the right decision to send my child to camp, specifically YMCA camp, have you ever seen how many choices a parent must make when they send the child to camp? I am not yet a parent of a child, but I can assure the families I serve, placing a child in my care, I, foremost worry of the safety of both my campers and my staff and then I try t...

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Author bio

Writing of my life's journey and finding ways to live simply in an ever complicated world. Through my poems and parables, I write about key people in my life, the human condition and occasional viewpoint of the world around me.