The Joy of Spring

Ahhh youth! If only we adults could still experience the joy of letting go and being a kid once-in-a-while. A good run on cool, green spring grass (yes, even with the Dandelions weeds) as we head as fast as our little legs will take us to the playground equipment is something "adults" don't do very often, if at all any more.

A close college friend of my wife and his two boys stopped by Fairmont for a quick visit today while on business. So it was to the Channel Inn for fried food and burger lunch on the shores of Hall Lake and then across the street to the park, since the adults took WAY too long to finish eating and talking and the boys needed to burn off some energy for the ride home to The Cities.

The point is, deep down inside, we all want to be like kids. But the parent inside us says: "Stop fidgeting, sit nice and don't even think about going out to play." But some of us, like me, need to allow ourselves "to go play" more often. We would enjoy our lives a lot better.