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The Swing

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson – 1850-1894
How do you like to go up in a swing?
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside–

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown -
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

Every girl can be a princess
Any dream can be
Close your eyes and see
A magic wand and soon you’ve gone
From just you to royalty

You don’t need a grand old castle
Rising in the air
Maids to brush your hair
Your heart is pure, you’re thoughtful
Surely princess, you’re almost there

Why just putting on a tiara
And you aren’t the same old you
My life changed so completely
By just putting on a shoe
Who knew

Every girl can be a princess
Fashion can be learned
Heads can still be turned
By your sweet face
The style and grace
You know you’ve already earned

Hold your head high and keep smiling
‘Cause that’s just what a princess does
You’re as beloved and beguiling
As ever a princess was

Every girl can be a princess
All that’s left to do
Is find a prince for you
A prince who’s bold
You’ll hold you your whole life through

The most perfect princess
Is you

Thinking of Miquel today, his first day away at college…

“Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.”

~Emily James Putnam

 

“Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 7:15)”

 

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

“Cousins are different beautiful flowers in the same garden.”

“Cousins by blood – friends by choice.”

 

   

 “The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence”

      “Young people need models, not critics”
      ~ John Wooden

 

Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer
Do you know you’re unlike any other?
You’ll always be my thunder, and I said
Your eyes are the brightest of all the colors
I don’t wanna ever love another
You’ll always be my thunder
So bring on the rain

“We find a delight in the beauty and happiness of children, that makes the heart too big for the body”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I’m looking at you through the glass…
Don’t know how much time has passed
Oh god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home sitting all alone inside your head

Ohhhoh when the starrs
Ohhh oh when the starrrrs that liieee