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abbe
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since 2003-01-20

Posts 131
michigan, usa

0 posted 2003-02-12 04:01 PM

Scattergorically speaking

as a child, and still to this day
my mother uses a colloquialism
“We got there and scattered the kids about”

I quite remember the day at age 4
when the folks arrived at a little country store
stopped to pick up stuff for supper
while visiting “famly in that neck of the woods”
the women went about the shopping
the men went about the talking
and the kids scattered about

this one scattered behind the country store
with the grocer’s daughter to see her doll
lost in daydreams and child playings
realized time had passed
went for the parents and they were gone
without me
they had scattered me to the winds

supper time came and the kids were called
from their scatterings
one head short
the smallest one
where had she gone
they began to look about
she was scattered no where
then realized – last time seen at the country store
and back they went to retrieve me

sometimes I feel that way still
my thoughts scattered about
can't gather them around me into a 'famly' of wisdom
gone to the 4 winds
stray seeds blowing everywhere
can’t make sense of even the smallest one

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

1 posted 2003-02-12 04:29 PM

Quite an interesting write. I often have scattered thoughts as well...jumbled up feelings & memories. Chris

"Hope" is the thing with feathers-
that perches in the soul....

-Emily Dickinson

SPIRIT
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since 2002-12-29

Posts 1745
California Desert

2 posted 2003-02-12 06:34 PM

Neat write - I enjoyed very much.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

3 posted 2003-02-12 08:32 PM

I enjoyed this. Lovely way of putting it by your mother. Scattered them about. I left a grandaughter at the cheese factory once . It was a tour for her birthday, but I forgot to count kids when we got back to the car. She was quite put out with me. But we didn't go far before I noticed. Joyce

abbe
Member

since 2003-01-20

Posts 131
michigan, usa

4 posted 2003-02-13 04:03 PM

thanks everyone... this was just a little trip down memory lane as i escaped from the afternoon drudgery of doing "meaningful" stuff with a computer.

joyce - i love that you took your grand daughter on a tour for her b-day and she got left... that just makes me smile... yeah, i still tease my mom about her effort to lose me when i was 4, she just smiles with a twinkle in her eye... she loves to tell this story. but in telling this story to friends, it seems nearly every kid has gotten left behind at least once when growing up.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2003-02-20 01:00 PM

thanks for sharing...like this a lot

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

6 posted 2005-06-24 01:46 PM

Anne~
This is positively precious~

I hope you get the email I sent and come back in for a visit~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

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