You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them -- no matter how old or impressive they may be -- as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much -- we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.-- Leo Rosten
On this day, this woulda / shoulda / coulda been 41 today day, I had a major block of my mind that wandered through passageways and rooms that I thought I had locked.
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When I was a young girl (boy) .. said put away those young girl (boy) ways.. now you know that I am so much older.. I long for those young girl (boy) days...
My thoughts drifted to three girls, born in rapid succession to a young and beautiful mother, who, because of the closeness of those pregnancies was tired and depressed, so the two older girls spent lots of time with the maternal grandparents.. while the first boy child was waiting to be born. Now, it is known that my grandparents on my father's side were farmers (dairy) and my grandparents on my mom's side were coalminer (pa) and factory dress maker (nana), and my dad was a logger and mom, well, she was a bona fide baby-making stay-at-home mom. To say money was very tight was about right. But Nana, the seamstress, bought left over fabric from her employer (factory owner) and made all three of us girls the same dress, so we always were dressed alike. Mom cut our hair, so we all had those taped to our forehead then cut straight across, when the tape was removed, sticking straight up in the air, bangs. We went once a year to Louis & Reilly for Buster Brown oxford shoes.
But, because of that lack of material things in our lives, our creative fairy tale ability came on stronger than dirt.... it kicked in and hung on. Why we wrote and produced plays on our front steps starring none other than the close in succession kids and upstairs neighbor girls... we wrote school room scenarios and even dabbled in a musical about a soldier, appropriately named after the song in that era .. "Soldier Boy". Now, this was a drop-azzed musical, based solely upon the fact that the upstairs neighbor girl had a major case on my brother, Dave... both of who were 9 and 8. Jodie (the neighbor girl) grabbed hold of Dave and laid a kiss on him and then when he departed, sank to her knees while bellowing out the tune..
Who woulda thought that we would write such an appropriate play. My brother Dave enlisted in the Marines.
What games we played .. what imaginations we had.. and what frikken passion went into everything we did and loved... but my Gawd did we laugh! The quote holds the truth ...
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"beneath the costume s the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales"
and tonite.. tonite... my fairy tale is that I am once again walking main street of my old home town headed for the Tastee Freeze pushing my bro, Rick, in the carriage...
I tasted, tasted love so sweet
And all of it was lost on me
Buttons sold like property
Sugar on my tongue
I kept falling over
I kept looking backward
I went broke believing
That the simple should be hard
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Chorus: 'Cuz, All we are we are
All we are we are
And every day is a start of something beautiful
I wasted, wasted love for you
Traded out for something new
Well, it's hard to change the way you lose
If you think you never won
Chorus
And in the end the words won't matter
'Cuz in the end nothing stays the same
And in the end dreams just scatter and fall like rain
for gramps, but mostly for Rick who is most probably playing with his best bud who went before him, Max, his Great Dane.. Happy Birthday, Bro.. I miss you...
A man goes to a bar and he ties his Great Dane up outside. About 10 minutes later a lady comes in and asks whos Great Dane is outside.
"Mine" says the man.
"My dog has just killed him", she says.
"What breed is your dog?" he asks.
"A Chiuahua", she says.
"How can a Chiuahua kill a Great Dane?"
"He got caught in his throat!!!"
Gemini 
