My family and I had the privilege of going to Colorado Springs, Colorado, over the 4th of July week to visit my mother and my son’s family. My grandson turned one on July 5 and we were not going to miss that wonderful day. But the day we got there had me thinking very differently about the whole situation until I looked at what went on from a different perspective.

My mother had redone her landscaping since the last time I had been there and we were all walking around her yard to see how different everything looked. All of a sudden, I heard buzzing around my right ear and I swatted at whatever...