Safe, Secure, Independent
Our back yard wasn't huge and it wasn't tiny either. If you were moving it with the push mower it was too big. If you were weeding it, it was way too big. In reality it was average for the track houses in our neighborhood. We kids weren't allowed to play with the neighbor kids at their houses. If they wanted to come to our house, they were welcome. There wasn't much to attract them to our house. Little things like we had a black and white TV and theirs was a color TV; our home was not clean, we had no toys, we didn't wear stylish clothes-in short we had nothing of interest. We ate coon, possum, deer, fish and wild goat meat for dinner more often than we had chicken or hamburger. You always seem to want what you don't have-the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. So not having ALL the stuff and not being able to play with 'their' stuff and watching the commercials about all the stuff I'd never get to have-well, I grew up covetous. Maybe be...