I write this after writing about the fire, because there will always be youth to give me joy.  Last night it rained so much in Chico, California, that the parking lots of the college student apartment buildings were flooded.  REALLY flooded.  Flooding so deep that the kids attached wakeboards to pickup trucks and wakeboarded across the parking lots.  You can search it on you tube.  It is pure college kid love of life.  They have just returned to school.  Enough of the summer shenanigans.  Time to get back to work and then…nature gave them one last opportunity to play.  Ya gotta love it.  And it makes me wonder – what happens to us?  Why do we have to graduate and grow up and be responsible and not even consider for a moment what we could do with a flooded parking lot?  I have to admit my second thought after thinking “how cool!” was “oh man, they could really get hurt” and my third thought was “I wonder how long it took the cops to shut this down.”

Oh well, I guess as long as my first thought is “how cool” I’m still doing okay.  I think I will always be that way, loving the elan of youth and being inspired by it.  I don’t think I will ever be a grouchy old lady, waving my cane at kids.  I think the Sondag boys did that for me.  Thanks guys!!!