An interesting memory

Yesterday, I talked to an old friend who mentioned something that her son and my son had done together when they were in their very early teens. We lived about a half-mile to a mile from a house that had a front room converted to a candy store. It was called Dolly’s. The friend reminded me that our boys would ride their bikes there, quarter in hand, to buy candy. I got to thinking what a wonderful memory and then thought about the kids today. How few have the freedom to freely ride their bike to a candy store, if such a place even exists today. When I was a child, we had a similar place called Matt’s store, where we would buy candy to sell at our backyard circus. Buy it for a penny, sell it for two. Once again, a freedom that few children have today; much less the imagination to create a neighborhood circus. I must say, I’m grateful for my childhood and the childhood of my children, that was much the same. Technology can never replace the wonder of those years.