This is a photo of the "Supermoon" setting over Hungary, the biggest full moon in 18 years. All the excitement and talk about it yesterday got me to thinking back to when I was a little girl. I remember my small town in Georgia getting all hyped up for weeks about the eclipse of the sun that was going to happen.
I remember us kids being let out of school for the day, with dire warnings not to look directly into the sun or "YOU'LL GO BLIND!!!" And having to 'home-make' some kind of 'make-shift' glasses to look at the sun through...SO exciting!! LOL
My girlfriend's daughter...who was visiting me yesterday...is about the same age I was when this happened. And she has the same wide-eyed excitement about things that I did. She also has an artist's heart, and loves to draw.
We were sharing some time and looking online at different artists. I showed her one of my favorite children's art artists on Etsy, DUDADAZE. She loved it too! {All of the prints I'm sharing in this post, you can find in her shop HERE.}
Do you remember what you were like when you were little?!...My little friend reminded me how excited I used to be about art and writing. How much I loved running barefoot outdoors, turning somersaults, dressing up in my mothers hats and high heels, swinging on the school-yard playground.....
...feeding and running after the chickens in the yard, milking the cows, going fishing, playing...
....even when I was sick!
She also reminded me about how much I looked forward to my mother's best friend playing the piano.....Jackson Five and Donny and Marie songs....and how we used to dance around for hours.....giggling! :-)
That was around the age I also developed my love of knitting and crocheting...the crocheting stuck!!! :-))
With the news yesterday being full of political uprisings, bombings, missile strikes, planes being shot down, reactor meltdowns and earthquake aftershocks, I was thankful for the 'Supermoon' and an excited friendly young visitor :-] There was enough stuff going on in the world to be serious about on another day.
Yesterday we just were 'little'! Hubby included. We spent the day looking at art, giggling, listening to music, eating, and looking at the moon. :-) {Hubby took these shots from the backyard last night. :-]}
"Hello, Mr. Moon! You're the same one that was there when I was little.......I just remembered that today too."
Remember Being Little?
Do you remember being little?
Wish you could stay like that?
Playing 'Hopscotch' in the yard,
and dressing up in your Mama's hat?
Do you remember getting attention
just by smiling, being you?
Singing into pens and brushes?
Getting dimes for things you drew?
Do you remember flannel Pjs,
with the closed in, too warm, feet?
Or the shiny patent leathers
you couldn't play in in the street?
Do you remember bouncy curls?
Wish your hair would do that now?
Or your first grade stage performance
with your shy and humble bow?
Do you remember being little?
Wake up and wonder where you're at?
Make yourself go back to sleep;
Then dream the world is just like that?
