Trees, kids prompt visions of 'monkeys'

Long ago my husband returned from work to find all three of our children hanging from a wide, low crab apple tree, climbing and swinging from its branches.

"They look like a bunch of monkeys," he said laughing. I laughed, too, as they performed tricks they had devised in the twisted branches. Until the race card is played, there was only laughter.

Children, black, white, yellow or red from the sun can and do look like a troop of monkeys when they play in trees. Guess I'm color blind because that's the way I see it.

As I called my children monkeys, I also could have called the fun-loving troop of black children "monkeys." I don't play race cards in the game of life. I must be naive.

M. Klemenz

Elgin