"Hello Streamkeepers!"
The cheerful shout caught me off guard as Yumi and I were trundling across Ron McLean Park in southeast Burnaby on our way to do our usual ramble down and up Byrne Creek.
I turned and saw a young boy happily charging across the grass, and shouted back "Hello, wonderful day, isn't it?"
He waved, turned, and ran back to his family, and we forged onward, me with a lump in my throat and a welling in my eyes.
That's community, and it feels wonderful.
I don't know his name, but I recognized him -- he'd been involved in a fish release in the last year or two.
Thanks, kid. You recognizing us as streamkeepers meant a lot more to me than any newspaper or TV coverage!
Posted by Paul at June 7, 2008 08:34 PM