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I caught an interesting article about kids that built their own wiffle ball field in the middle of undeveloped city grounds. They cleared the land, put up an American flag, and put up their version of Fenway’s green monster.

Soon after - the lawyers came.

I’ll let you read the rest of the article for all of the gory details but I’ve got to wonder - what the heck is going on in our country? When I was a kid I spent most of my time running through fields or goofing around in the overgrown horse pasture that was next to my house. An odd tidbit - my mom tried to burn down that pasture and the city got to try out its brand new fire truck for the first time. The entire town was my playground and I could normally find something to keep me occupied - my parents might try to refute this statement as I was known to come to them complaining of boredom. Sure, I was destructive as heck while I was out but my creativity and energy level were the only things that could slow me down. Well it was almost the only thing save for my mother yelling for me to come in for dinner which often had a damper on whatever shenanigans I might have been up to at any given moment.

There were no lawyers. Neighbors didn’t complain - well, at least that I knew. I was free to be a kid. I didn’t destroy anyones personal property and neither did these kids - so whats the big deal? I’m not really sure - maybe some of us forgot how great it was to be a kid.