Often when Glenda and I are out for our walk, we stumble upon hopscotch mazes drawn by some small school girl, in front of her house. Being raised in the country where we had no sidewalks, I almost feel compelled to hop-skip-bounce across the template.
In Siquatapaque, Honduras, a festival is held each fall where the sidewalks are colored, and the streets decorated with pictures made by placing different colored grain, beans, and seed in a colorful arrangement. It’s beautiful.
Things are different where Disney sits. At one time, the Orlando mayor had invited the people “to chalk up their sidewalks,” when the Magic was in the playoffs. Now a citizen named Timothy Osmar wrote out things on the sidewalk with chalk saying things like “Justice Equals Liberty.” The chalk messages irritated city hall and caused them to stop him. Would they stop “hopscotch?” I don’t think so—that wouldn’t irritate “the powers that be”—be they city hall, The Magic, or Disney!
tomvancel
