Fire to the face

Injuries, I find, come in all packages. I once fell off a bridge in a park in Saitama while doing a handstand on the railing and hit my face on the stone of the bridge on my way into the water. I scraped my face thoroughly, cracked an orbital, and eventually broke two teeth. I once fell off the same trick move, jumping between slide and swingset, on my elementary school’s playground frequently enough that I broke my nose. I once broke my pinkie while playing soccer, catching it on someone’s shirt while they tried to take the ball from me. I once laid out onto my shoulder while playing frisbee hard enough to tear two ligaments, and then climbed on it enough to tear another before surgery. And of course there are other injuries that have their own posts, falling off a balcony in 2014 and crashing an ebike in 2025. The amazing thing, listing them, is how few were the injuries of a child. I’m reviewing them because 5’s came home from school with a burn on her chin. Her explanation,…