September 4, 2012


Good morning!  I hope you had a good time over the Labor Day holiday, with time to re-connect with family and also time to re-connect with yourself.  Life can get so busy we can lose sight of what’s really important.  Family is SO important to me, and I’ve been blessed with a really great one.  My husband and I spent the weekend in Indiana, celebrating my uncle’s 85th birthday with my mother, my brother and his family, and a host of cousins.  I cherish my memories of Indiana and my wonderful childhood adventures there.  Here’s a poem by Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley that reminds me of my own ‘fairy paradise’ when I was young:

A Child-World


  The Child-World--long and long since lost to view--
A Fairy Paradise!--
How always fair it was and fresh and new--
How every affluent hour heaped heart and eyes
With treasures of surprise!

Enchantments tangible: The under-brink
Of dawns that launched the sight
Up seas of gold: The dewdrop on the pink,
With all the green earth in it and blue height
Of heavens infinite:

The liquid, dripping songs of orchard-birds--
The wee bass of the bees,--
With lucent deeps of silence afterwards;
The gay, clandestine whisperings of the breeze
And glad leaves of the trees.

O Child-World: After this world--just as when
I found you first sufficed
My soulmost need--if I found you again,
With all my childish dream so realised,
I should not be surprised.


Uncle Lowell and me 




What special memories do you have of your childhood?  Take time today to reach out to a relative that was special to you then and let them know how much you love them!

1 comment:

  1. Dad wanted me to show him your site tonight so he will be happy to see this. I don't remember this picture either. I remember you having station wagons though! Love, Brenda

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