My mom taught me the proper way to flip creek rocks to search for salamanders. Pulling the flat semi-aquatic stones towards my school-aged body, I waited with impatient zeal as the turbid water cleared. Once my eyes adjusted to the silty creek bottom, living treasures abounded. I didn’t stand a chance. Wonder enraptured me from an early age. My sister says we may have been poor early on, but I wouldn’t have had it any other way. You can’t buy awe, and I’m glad my mother bestowed that gift on my siblings and me.
I grew up in the city but fortunately my Dad loved to fish. Some of my best childhood memories were of bass fishing and deep sea fishing with Dad and Mom at times. We always got out of the city and to rural Florida for those things. Thanks for the memories! Love and hugs!
Lots of fearlessness and vulnerability In this one “There is no manicured path to whatever success is” is one of your great phrases. And biking is a passion for me even to this day approaching my 80th birthday I identified with that as any child, certainly and “boy” should Getting that first full size two wheeler with no gears and where you braked by reversing the pedal was my first taste of freedom I still feel that since of freedom every time I get on my bike today It has electric assist and disc brakes and makes me feel 12 again!
Very cool! I haven’t ridden a bike in years outside of our stationary bike in the basement. Of course I look like a gorilla riding a beach ball on a normal bike now haha not a good look.
I grew up in the city but fortunately my Dad loved to fish. Some of my best childhood memories were of bass fishing and deep sea fishing with Dad and Mom at times. We always got out of the city and to rural Florida for those things. Thanks for the memories! Love and hugs!
That’s awesome!
Lots of fearlessness and vulnerability In this one “There is no manicured path to whatever success is” is one of your great phrases. And biking is a passion for me even to this day approaching my 80th birthday I identified with that as any child, certainly and “boy” should Getting that first full size two wheeler with no gears and where you braked by reversing the pedal was my first taste of freedom I still feel that since of freedom every time I get on my bike today It has electric assist and disc brakes and makes me feel 12 again!
Very cool! I haven’t ridden a bike in years outside of our stationary bike in the basement. Of course I look like a gorilla riding a beach ball on a normal bike now haha not a good look.
Brings me back to my childhood. We lived in off base housing. There were woods all around us. We spent so much time outside.
We could lay on the top of a hill & watch the different military vehicles going down the road.
Other days we would hike through the weeds & explore. I always felt peace those woods.
Thank you for bringing back those memories !
It was an awesome way to grow up!
Beautiful. Same here, but it was my dad with the salamanders and "crawfish"...bass bait!
Nice!