Go fly a kite, watch the birdie and digging for gold
Dear Rachel,
Whatever happened to kite flying? When I was a kid in the ’50s, we did it all the time. We went to the sports field to soar and have fun. Can’t these kids have fun other than with a smartphone? How about some bonding on a field of dreams? We had arial zooming and some crashes, oh well, I guess that’s life. Hey, can you even buy one in Durango?
– Rocket Man
Dear High as a Kite,
I promise you, kids these days are still soaring and having fun. They just don’t need a kite to do it. Neither do you, by the sound of this letter! And they’re better off for it. I tried flying a kite as a kid. It was … not fun. Not unless you enjoy detangling string and watching your possessions get stuck in a tree.
– Strung along, Rachel
Dear Rachel,
I can’t wait to see the badminton in the Paris Olympics. However, there’s not much fuss about it, even though the fast-moving sport is harder than tennis and pickleball. How about the City of Durango builds badminton courts or just raise the nets on the tennis and pickleball courts? Why haven’t they thought of that? This may be the next new fad in Durango. The jock in you will know the answer.
– Bad Mutton
Dear Bye Bye Birdie,
You know what else I can’t wait to see in the Paris Olympics? #JeChieDansLaSeineLe23Juin. In case your hashtagish is rusty, France cleaned up the Seine to make it swimmable. The French president and Parisian mayor announced they would take a dip. So the French people decided to protest by, erm, de-cleaning the river en masse. The initial date has passed and the politicians put it off, but I have faith that you will find a way to suggest we do this in the Animas.
– Raising a racquet, Rachel
Dear Rachel,
Money makes families b-a-n-a-n-a-s. My grandma is close to the end, and so there’s lots of chatter about her will. I basically expect to get nada because I’m the black sheep who ran off to the mountains. But my cousins, aunts, uncles and siblings tear into each other, jockeying for favor. How can I stay above the fray and not get sucked into the muck?
– Distrust Fund Kid
Dear Beneficiary,
Is this a pitch for an HBO show? Because I might watch this. I imagine it as “Game of Thrones” meets, I don’t know, “Weekend at Bernie’s.” Maybe that’s what you do! Tell everyone who tries to talk to you that you need them to sign a disclaimer, granting you full permission to use their words and actions in your screenplay-in-progress. That’ll clam ’em up REAL quick. And hey, if you do get some dough, maybe buy yourself a kite.
– Subject to taxes, Rachel
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