We were in some unfamiliar part of town (it may have been Lakewood) for an event arranged by the wife's workplace. In the next yard, some young girls were setting up an elaborate tea party with tables, tablecloths, hanging flower baskets, it was lovely. My kids were going between the yards, the girl was getting to know the children next door. inevitably she was invited to the party, a birthday party.

Looking at her ... she was dressed in some kind of white, flowing dress, wearing feathery, pasteboard angel wings, and someone had given her a garden hat. What happened to dress-ups, where did that time go? She's already left so much of that behind.