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michaelboy) wrote2022-11-18 06:33 pm
michaelboy) wrote2022-11-18 06:33 pm
These are days
In the summers when I was little, my mom sometimes dressed me in my sisters' hand-me-down clothes. One outfit I recall was a little pink seersucker sunsuit and a pair of red tooled-leather sandals. Because it was way before I had any extensive social life, I didn't mind wearing it. I remember how cool the cloth felt in the sun and how I could stomp around in the clover and still get my knees and arms as dusty as I pleased. I suppose if I were a year or two older, I'd have come to some ridiculously socially sentient place in my head and it would have twisted me into embarrassment or possibly even a bold resentment. I simply don't know.
Now that I'm older, I realize how much my mom and dad loved me and I wish I could express this to them. It's funny how with time, little things or difficult times often grow into the most precious things we'll ever have or know. It makes me wonder ,in the modest future, how I will look back to me now.
Note: This isn't the original seersucker sunsuit of subject, but it is another hand-me-down and those are the sandals.
* * *
"Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this.
And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky.
It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you."
~ From: These are Days, 10,000 Maniacs
Now that I'm older, I realize how much my mom and dad loved me and I wish I could express this to them. It's funny how with time, little things or difficult times often grow into the most precious things we'll ever have or know. It makes me wonder ,in the modest future, how I will look back to me now.
Note: This isn't the original seersucker sunsuit of subject, but it is another hand-me-down and those are the sandals.
* * *
"Never before and never since, I promise, will the whole world be warm as this.
And as you feel it, you'll know it's true that you are blessed and lucky.
It's true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you."
~ From: These are Days, 10,000 Maniacs