Skater boy learns by watching the big kids.

Practicing on his scooter for now. Uphill.

Sliding while the big kids speed around like heavy freight trains.

Skater boy meanders close to their paths. “Stay back,” I say, “out of their way.”

He zooms down lesser hills. Turns and jumps. “Mom, this is my best move!”

Skater boy. You’ve stolen my heart.

“It’s really complicated,” he says. As complicated as 1986, I think.

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with Him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of Himself to us. Love like that. Ephesians 5:1-2 The Message

Walk of Life by Dire Straits seems oddly appropriate here.

When skater boy saw this YouTube video with Mark Knopfler’s picture at the end, skater boy said, “That’s what he looks like? He’s a karate guy?”

Must be the headband.