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 Marjorie Pincus looked out the front window at her husband, Marvin,
and smiled. No matter how old he gets, she thought, he’ll always be
the boy I remember, riding his bicycle through this town so many
years ago.
Marvin had stopped picking out the nutgrass and was watching a small
group of children across the street in the park. Two of them had
kites, and the brisk wind of morning had them both up as high as
string would allow. Soon, Marvin had ambled across the street and
was standing behind the children, watching the taut dip in the
string and listening to the rattle of the tight paper.
The first time Marvin Pincus flew a kite in this park, airplanes
didn’t go very far or very fast. The other side of the moon was a
mystery in those days, and no one really thought man would ever go
there and back. Not really.
And here these kids are, flying their kites the very same way, with
the very same rag tails, and looking up at the earth-tied fliers
climbing with the gusts and settling with the relaxation of the
breezes.
Marjorie watched from across the street as the Herrera boy walked
over to Marvin, whispering something as Marvin leaned down to hear,
and then handed the stick with the kite string tied to it to the old
man. His face beamed as he controlled flight once again. The kids
smiled, too, probably not realizing kite flying was the same when
Mr. Pincus was a kid, too.
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But what about the dreams? Marjorie thought about this. What goes
through the minds of today’s kite fliers who do know what the
surface of Mars looks like, who know what the far side of the moon
looks like, who know there are human beings in a space station,
living up there, right now? What will their dreams be as the kites
dance?
What dreams will dance now as they stand there and hold the miracle
of flight in their fingers?
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles]
Ol' Jimmy Dollar
is Slim Randles' first children's book. The book is for kids
K-3rd grades and is even better when parents read it with children.
Ol' Jimmy Dollar makes for sweet dreams and if you have a dog
even better. Available now on Amazon.
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