........Random Thoughts......

the days are getting longer and the moon doesn't quite show up as soon as she use too. in a few weeks we will turn the clocks ahead one hour and i will be drunk with happiness...to  have more daylight hours, to twirl underneath the golden hazy sun

and dream gazing at the moon....

today there are puddles  melting snow is leaving behind...beautiful blue sky and puffy clouds...

its only 10:30AM and it's already 52 degrees....that makes my soul giddy with happiness...

ive been trying to live in the simple things...appreciating wherever i may be at the moment.

yesterday i went to the adler theater to shoot the central high school show chorus....

when i walked inside, i was wrapped up into another era..and i let my senses and my mind float away to bask in the memories of a time long ago ...it was a movie theater when i was a child and i can remember my mother taking my sister and i there for all the walt disney movies....as i stood in that that theater i let my consciousness take over, if only for a few minutes....
nothing had changed..the chairs were still the same,
the color on the walls
it seemed as if time had stood still all the while i was growing up....

i could smell the popcorn and envision the little  round cups that looked like oranges  filled with orange juice...

i could remember the excitement my sister and i contained as we eagerly found a seat and waited for the movie to begin....

im so blessed to have grown up in the simple days...where children played outside all day long, made mud pies and had tangled hair and dirty faces by bedtime....

we didn't have a cell phone glued into our hand 24/7

we were too busy enjoying the times of childhood.....i regret that my youngest daughter will never know that feeling...of playing kick the can under the street lights with all the neighborhood kids...

of actually being able to be outside without parents having to worry about a drive by shooting, or a maniac kidnapping your child....

although life is simpler now with smart tvs, cell phones and technology i often long for the simple times....sitting at the river at my grandparents summer cabin....pig tails and running through the woods....wading in the river when we had a dry spell...and my favorite,  laying in bed out at the cabin and being lulled to sleep by  croaking  toads

my sister and i snuggled against each other in the same bed

we didnt have the convenience of a bathroom in the cabin we had to go outside to the "out house"

those were the best of days...

the simpleness of childhood

and

nobody expecting anything more than just being a 

child....

XOXO