As I watch Sam go by across the pond, outside my window, I think, “What in the WORLD would Sam do if his parents moved him away from here?” He’s been outside all day, fishing. Just now he walked by, wading in the pond near the bank, with another friend. He’s about 4th grade age. Spring break week, he has been out there all day every day. He is there more than he is home. Parents here just let their kids wander. There is no fear for their safety. What a dreamy place to raise a child. We are a neighborhood with many houses, with pond and swimming pool, out away from the small town city limits, close to the big lake. It is its own community. Though something could happen, nothing does happen, to kids out here. People know their neighbors as well. They even own the STREETS! The neighborhood association OWNS the streets and takes care of repair of them– not the city. If someone tries to speed through from one side to the other and doesn’t live here — they can BAN THEM! It’s nice for safety. And it is also very insulated and excluded from the world. There are some African Americans here but few. People ride around in their golf carts on a sunny Spring Saturday. It’s a lazy, comfortable place to live.
Purple trees with low-hanging blooms have exploded open in the last week. I don’t know what they are, they look like giant lilac trees. Azaleas also exploded open on my campus and around town in the past week — dark bright pinks, lighter pinks, & white.
Doctor Grandma 
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