Excerpt:

The Wheels on our Bikes

... went round and round, as fast as we could pedal once we'd realised our mistake in stopping and listening. We'd ignored the warning signals due to our youth and naivety back then. It was a gentler time - for us an enchanted time. No threat of danger had darkened our lives; we'd known only wide-open, welcoming and loving arms and hearts. Until now...

and at the end, a couple of quotes -

Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living  things. 

                         ~ Rene Dubos, 'So Human an Animal' - Pulitzer Prize winner

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

                           ~ Denis Waitley

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