I Skipped Along the Path, and Kissed the Pavement!
This Saturday Dan, my youngest daughter, and I took our dog Mojo to the St. Cloud Lakefront. It’s a nice park, beach, and has a long walkway out to a covering and benches. I confess my attitude was a little snarky, and I was trying to put on a happy smile. We walked down the pathway to the covered area, and on our way back my youngest daughter starting to skip. “Come on Mom. You skip too!” I realized I looked ridiculous skipping with her back to the park, but I have to admit it was helping my attitude just a tad. She started giggling because in her mind she made her old mom skip. We both started to laugh; perhaps for a brief instant we had a picture perfect mother daughter moment. Until, and I don’t know why now, I purposely got off the path. As a result I twisted my ankle badly, came down hard on my opposite knee, and collapsed hard on the pavement. I could feel the pavement inside of the palms of my hands where...