My niece Marie (11 years old) filmed Sacha jumping off the old chicken pen next to our barn on his BMX. My sister-in-law (Marie's mother) said, "I nearly had a heart attack while watching him. I didn't know if I should say, "NO!" or scream!"
My brother Mark pulled up in his pickup truck a minute before Sacha jumped. His little girl Kate ran up to him, saying, "Daddy! Daddy! Sacha is going to jump off the chicken pen on his bike; he is going to get hurt. Do something!"
My brother Mark, a daredevil in his day, replied to his five-year-old daughter, "We all gonna learn somehow, someday…" Then he grabbed his daughter's hand and watched.
Nearly a month later, Marie showed me the video today.
Later, I asked Sacha, "Were you scared?"
He laughed, "Yes! But with a crowd of supporters, I had to do it."
Family love! Family of daredevils. Family on the edge of a nervous breakdown equals support to Sacha…. somewhere along the line, fear and support got lost in emotional translation.
My Mother offered, "After raising five children, four boys, I thought I was through with this sort of thing."
Sacha jumped his BMX off the chicken pen….. I am so glad he did not do a gap year by the Empire State Building or the Grand Canyon.
The chicken pen has a nice sound to it, doesn't it?
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