Wednesday, 15 April 2009
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By Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
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"I'm going to put up my universe," he said with a warm tone to his voice. He was walking through the room when he said it. I don't think he was actually talking to me. I'm pretty sure he was just saying it outloud. Good ol' young Hoop's has a wonderful quality to his voice. Makes you want to listen. He was refering to a glow in the dark night sky with all planets included. He got it in his Spring Basket. Things to make the mind work is the theme each year.
"Hey Hoops? "Did you look at the diagram, so you know the order?"
"I know the order, but it's my universe and I'm going to build it the way I want it."
I had picked up the box to look at the materials provided. On the front was the message for my day:
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO CREATE YOUR OWN AMAZING UNIVERSE INCLUDED
"Make it happen Hoops!"
What will you add to your "universe" today?
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I Love your stories
I really enjoy watching kids create. You are blessed.
ahh to be young again!
very cute.
@Cynsjrl - Thank you. My universe is indeed blessed.
@SilentSeekr - Each day new.
Last night, I was looking through old file folders (as one tends to do at tax time) and I found an "essay" I had written to myself in 1990. In it, I had complained about the fact that I had made a few choices but that otherwise, I felt that the direction of my life was the result of forces outside my control.
Every now and then (and especially when one is young), we need to feel that we can create our own universe that is ordered not by some random, outside force, but by our own will and creativity.
As part of that old essay, I had outlined a few things that I wanted to do with my life. Interestingly, within the last year (and even the last two weeks), I met some of those 1990 goals.
@TheDumberScott -
you are one neat peach ...
@MixedUpMale - Ah! The universe you created in intentions orbited right around those goals. I love it! Hope all is well with you.
is this about one of your kids?
I have a vague fear of glow in the dark stars falling from the sky of my ceiling and poking out my eye. in the same context of vague fears versus realities, I have never had a star from from the sky but spent three days in agony because of gypsum dust landed in my eye=awake...and had a terrified 20 pound low-rider of a fat Siamese fly through my open garden level window-straight dead dead center into that happy place made sad from such wicked abuse in my middle of the night.....and I still fear the imagination and but cuss reality.
One of my projects is to take glow in the dark stars and attach them to the ceiling in my daughter's room. I want to arrange them the way major constellations appeared in the sky the morning she was born.
@windupherskirt - Does it blow wind up your universal skirt? hehehe
@jillcarmel - Hoops is my ten year old Jill.
@Uncious - Ouch! I guess your universe needs some permanant gluing for eye protection.
Seriously, when things like that happen it's hard to regain the fearlessness that was once there. (pats heart)
@Botolf - NIce! My older son Teen Dude had animal tracks of his totem animals and now Hoops the ten year old has taken the top bunk bed and the universe will expand with his additions.
@Jaynebug - it blows somewhere ... up my skirt? probly ... haha
I see.
@Jaynebug - maybe just maybe the fear is good...itravel lousy at night as I'm not so hot in night travel relying on sight I don't have in the day-but in an area I called home i did it anyway only to be held up at my front gate.... maybe just maybe it is better that I thank the unknown soul for the compliment of thinking I had something worth stealing and take his hidden advice i travel with others. (years old memory of losing nothing but a pair of shorts andconfidence in police- I know there is little one can do without descriptions...i couldn't offer one but knew they were ahead me in line but 7 minutes before at the convenience store on camera and i could identify some helpful identifyers....the tape was erased before they obtrained permission...nothing ever was done but i don't go out alone after dark when I visit there...EVER.) Fearlessness just not as romantic as vague terror. "The people had a vague terror of the night, For instance a snake was not called a snake at night for he might hear-he was called a string."= Chinua Achebe, 1958's "Things Fall Apart" :P fearless schmereless. ;) be afraid...be very afraid... I can shout myself wet with boo as i laugh myself blue at the mirror of me in the mirror talking to "you"
I have these on our bedroom ceiling. Loved them as a kid, and still do (still a kid, huh?). She's right to create her own universe - a palette of stars and comets - who wouldn't want to dabble a bit?
this is so sweet. and thank you in advance, because it is 3pm and i didn't know where my poem was for today and i think i just found it.
Cute story!
freedom to create your own universe is a powerful gift!
I think I will add the illusion that it is always dawn. Dew all around. Purplish color to the sky. That certain fresh smell.
aaah....
Ah, this reminded me of my own son when he was little. He had a brand new room and we decorated the ceiling with glow in the dark stars. I loved putting him to bed and laying there with him, looking up at our own little night sky. We tried to get enough stars to make a few constellations.
I love the way you write. You seem to be so full of peace, and you have the eyes of the child when it comes to seeing the world around you. It is always a pleasure coming here after a day at work. It's like opening up a little treasure! LOL!
I got a wonderful surprise added to my universe yesterday. Go to the NASA homepage and type hand into the search field. The go to the article about the pulsar (it was first yesterday). Pretty cool, eh?
I love it! Making our own universe,
Today I will add a bit more patience and a bit more compassion to my universe.