My dearest Zoe,

Are you getting excited?

It wasn’t a very windy March it came in and went out like a lamb, but that’s okay, March is past, I just hope that this Friday is breezy. It’s time for this year’s Good Friday kite flying, and I hope that you have your kite ready!

Mine is ready, but the big excitement for me this year will be in helping some children build their first kites (I’ll be helping their parents build kites, too!). That will be a lot of fun, as much fun as when I taught you how to build your first kite, and as much as when your Mom and I built and flew our first kites with your Grandpa.

There is always fun in sharing, and we’ve been sharing our kite flying tradition for many years. The fun is also in seeing the kites lift their way into the sky. There are so many hopes that rise along with the kite. Of course, we hope that the kite will fly and that the string won’t break. But we can hope for so many other things, and then send those dreams skyward on our little floaters. Each kite becomes a little prayer as it swims in the air, and how could God not listen to such pretty little prayers?

My prayer this year will be that by next, we will again be able to send our kites into the clouds together. But until then, I’ll just have to send you my love.

Just breezing along,

Uncle Roy