We bought an axe-throwing target from Costco this week. The "axes" are plastic and the target is a big bristle-type dartboard, so it's a facsimile of actual axe-throwing that suits our grade-schoolers. A neighbor saw it and commented that his son was teaching their grandson to shoot, and our kids are learning to throw axes, and how this new generation of kids scares him.

"Good, " I thought but didn't say. And I felt hopeful for the future.