There I am a new lizard beside a soft wet egg shell.
I see that I am clumbsy and cute and crawling and drueling.
On a carpet in the late 1960’s where every toy is fumbled with.
I am blond and light and boney with little thin teeth and ready to get involved.
One example, My Dad was painting some window frames, he left the paint brush in a pan and went in to the kitchen, when he came back , he saw me painting, slumping the white paint onto the glass of the window at age four .Little monkey do what he see big monkey do. It was cute, but I guess I got spanked or something.
I actually believe I had all that I needed. There was nothing that I wasn’t receiving that I needed.
Oh maybe big boobies full of beer and flying fairies that could threw me into a glide like a paper squirrel plane as they caught me as I landed in the tropical flumes of warm blue water, while talking parrots filled in for the lack of understanding and creative companionship my siblings were lacking, but I don’t hold it against them.
It was the 70’s! We had wonderfully stupid television shows like this:
And GREAT movies like this:
I listened to some fine music growing up then too:
What I would have liked this child to know is this. You don’t have a “Learning Disability” You simply have a Learning DIFFERENTbility. That’s what I have found, the stupid teachers and such did’nt know enough that I was simply Learning differentabled but abled non the less.
Fully grown adults can be stupider that you can possibly imagine. And so I leave the boy to find his own truths. Truths about work and Money :
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Truths about the church of Jesus:The truth about love and sex:
and last but not least the truth that life isn’t always about winning the race:
Racing up the Sidewalk circa 1970
.That’s me trailing behind in a race up the side walk 1970 at age 3 &1/2.
As far as getting what you want or need , well, here are some fine gentlemen who I believe got it right!:
3 comments:
What ever happened to JAck Wild? He was also in Oliver Twist. He sang, "Just fink or yerself at home, just fink of yerself as part of the family!" I had a big crush on him when I was a wee lass. That witch was always after his flute! Poor kid was always getting knocked unconscious, too. GEt rid of the puppets and show more Jack Wild!
MArky MArk and the Monkey Bunch killed the remake of the Planet of the Apes! The original movie probably turned me off to war and violence more than the Vietnam daily body counts on the news. Although I do remember asking my mom when I was about 3 years-old, "What is War?" I was born in the middle of it.
Alan Watts. "regard everything as play" "There really is no necessity to go on living." Thanks! I really did need to hear that. I've been reading too much news lately.
The Rolling Stones look so angelic when they're lip synching. Innocent boys. It was an innocent time I guess. They look like faery pagan creatures when they are really playing--WOW.
Thanks TJ. You reminded me of so much! AND!!!! I always think of you as a genius with your DIFFERENTability!
JAck Wild - The Artful Dodger
Damn I thought puff the magic dragon was a blatent potsmoking reference, but H R Puffinstuff take the cake! That's special funny cake too!
I love this entry.
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