Boy Love
3 Nov
Eight-year-old Joey said to me today, “I’d go back to all the bad times in my life to get back to some of the good ones.” Pretty profound for a young guy — and exactly how many bad times can the boy have encountered? I didn’t ask, just focused on the good instead.
“Which good times?” I asked.
“Just me and Daddy at Lake Wauburg, all by ourselves,” he said.
Knowing it must be a dad’s dream to hear something like this, I told John. Sure enough, his heart was warmed. And he can’t wait to get Joey back out on the lake, with the favorite cast net and a few fishing poles on a simple little Jon boat.
How about you — would you go back through the bad to get to the good?
