Collected Item: “Rolling Through It”
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Rolling Through It
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
photograph
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when playgrounds were closed and everything felt uncertain, my kids and I found unexpected joy in an unlikely place: an empty church parking lot and a couple of skateboards.
What started as a desperate attempt to get outside and shake off the cabin fever quickly turned into a daily ritual. We wobbled, we fell, we laughed. We brought snacks, lawn chairs, and invited friends—staying six feet apart but feeling closer than ever. That parking lot became our DIY skatepark, our recess, our mental health break.
Learning to skateboard in my 40s wasn’t exactly on my bucket list, but it gave us something else the pandemic had taken: momentum. We didn’t need to be good—just brave enough to push off and try again.
Turns out, a parking lot and a skateboard can be the start of something beautiful.
What started as a desperate attempt to get outside and shake off the cabin fever quickly turned into a daily ritual. We wobbled, we fell, we laughed. We brought snacks, lawn chairs, and invited friends—staying six feet apart but feeling closer than ever. That parking lot became our DIY skatepark, our recess, our mental health break.
Learning to skateboard in my 40s wasn’t exactly on my bucket list, but it gave us something else the pandemic had taken: momentum. We didn’t need to be good—just brave enough to push off and try again.
Turns out, a parking lot and a skateboard can be the start of something beautiful.
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
self
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2020-05-19