Yesterday afternoon, when I got home from my morning meeting, I heard someone hollering in my driveway. I opened the blinds and saw a kid on a bicycle, alone, yelling "Wow! That was awesome!" over and over.
I watched as he rode his bike up the street that tees at my driveway. He turned around and raced back down the hill, across the intersecting street and into my drive, where he did a heart-stopping brodie that ended mere inches from my side gate. Again, he started shouting, to himself, about how cool that was.
As long as there are kids like him, our way of life will never disappear.