The Garage of Dreams
June has been a rainy month here in New Hampshire. Every day, almost. It’s been a busy month for our garage! Logan has been working on his skateboard moves.
Among all the tools and snow tires, there are some chunks of six-by-six, left over from a pole barn. Logan set these up to create a wooden “rail” and has been teaching himself to grind. The formerly rough hemlock is now black and polished with paint, rubbed off his board’s underside.
I was recently reminded that the Apple computer company started in a garage, and most of my favorite bands did, too. I wonder how Logan’s hero, Rodney Mullen, started? Perhaps this will become part of Logan’s origin story: “It rained all month, so I made a rail in the garage from scrap lumber. That’s how I learned to grind.” Even if he never answers a sportscaster’s interview question this way, he is on the right track for success in some arena or other: the path of a person pressing forward toward a dream, rain or shine.
