Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 25, 2016

Don’t you have any friends your own age, Frazz? This is sad.

He’s got Jane Plainwell and Mr. Burke, his girlfriend and best friend respectively.

I am fifty something… I hang out with friends from 2 to 98 yrs old. I do all kind of activities with them including pretending, climbing trees, running, skateboarding, windsurfing, kitesurfing, barbecueing, having a beer, having a conversation, etc… It depends on who I am with at the moment.

In today’s overly protective society, a janitor climbing a tree with a student would be fired.

Someone said, ‘We become truly adult when we regain the sense of wonder we enjoyed as children.’Sometimes sitting in a quiet corner reading a familiar children’s story, playing pick-up-sticks with a small person, coloring in a book of birds or flowers, or just listening to the many questions a child offers while on a walk helps us regain a momentary taste of the wonders that we left behind when we began to concentrate on the ‘real world.’Personally, at age 80, I still miss that earlier me.

My son’s school district let out on a Thursday this year. He was excited to realize that Friday was the first day of summer break.

I miss the earlier me too. I was late for the dentist last week and had to sit in the office for an extra hour…

I have outlived my Biblical allotment, but recently when the 12-year-old next door was out shooting hoops by himself, I went out and challenged him to a game of h.o.r.s.e. Of course, he beat me soundly, but the laughter and fun gave each of us a slightly better day.

My kid’s last day was a Wend, and a half day at that!