A mom savors the pace of life over a game of catch

With a tennis ball in one hand and a baseball glove covering the other, 6-year-old Bodie Perlman receives throwing pointers from his mother, Tiburon resident Nikki Perlman, as the two play catch in Zelinsky Park April 15.

“We come here all the time,” Perlman says, adding that her older daughter’s second-grade class just had a party at the park and she and Bodie “could walk up home from here.”

Bodie is an active kid. He previously played soccer and basketball, is playing lacrosse and has been playing baseball since he was 3 years old. He’s currently a member of the Hammerheads as part of the Tiburon Peninsula Little League.

Outside of sports, Bodie has recently become engrossed with the “Star Wars” film franchise and used the 3D printer at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library to print a Candy Land-inspired parody called Star Wars Land, with Yoda’s swamp, Jabba the Hutt’s palace and the Jedi Academy as some of the locales.

Perlman says she’s appreciative of “this little triangle of school, home, library” she frequents with her two kids. “It’s the little magical moments before they grow up that mean a lot, and it’s speeding by so fast.”

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