- "Talking" to the wind and "asking" questions about my future when I was still in the single digits.
- "Vivaldi's Ring of Mystery"; a cassette that my Aunt and Uncle gave me. Mom, Dad and I listened to it in the car all the time.
- All of our cats and how distinctive they were / are.
- Always putting money in the dog statues for donations to the blind at grocery stores.
- Being the person that all my friends "left" their Invisible Friends with whenever they went away on trips with their families, and eventually feeling so swamped by my "work" that I created an imaginary place called the "Plant-atarium" so I could visit them without them "crowding the house".
- Books on tape with Dad, featuring Nero Wolfe, Kinsey Milhone and Hercule Poiout.
- Coming home after camp to my newly-painted and remodeled High School bedroom (no longer The Little Mermaid themed).
- Competing to see who could read the newest Harry Potter book the fastest.
- Deep turquoise on my Mother.
- Discovering magnolia trees.
- Discovering my talent for language.
- Doing tie-dye with my family.
- Fairy tea.
- Falling deeply in love at the age of twelve, a love that would last until we were sixteen and seventeen respectively.
- Getting a dreamcatcher from one of my Godmothers.
- Getting into a hose fight with Dad when we should have been gardening (I ruined his shoes.)
- Hogball with my family and friends.
- KiKi's Delivery Service.
- Mom's amazing services.
- My bass ocarina and my friend's soprano ocarina - the moment I lost mine and he broke his.
- My Grandmother's orchids (and how badly I want to take care of some as well.)
- Neopets.
- Planting sunflowers in the backyard with Mom and watching as they followed the dipping sun.
- Playing in the creek - and that time I found an animal skull under the water (I freaked out).
- Playing Pokemon with my cousins.
- Printing pictures from the anime InuYasha and Sailor Moon off of the computer and making collages and scrapbooks - and how it made everyone in the class make fun of me for being a lesbian.
- Reading to the other kids.
- Running through sprinklers.
- Saint Esther, Saint Francis of Assisi and Ruth.
- Taking Dad's shoes and hiding them in my toy kitchen oven because I didn't want him to go to work - and the fact that he totally caught me.
- That spot in the woods with the bending tree that my best friends and I spent time in when we were taken to the park - and the time that the bending tree broke under our weight.
- That time that two of my cousins wanted to dye my hair blonde using their Mother's dye kit.
- The carousel horse that used to be in the local plaza that would entice me to go shopping with my Mom more often.
- The cherry tree in our neighborhood and the blossoms come spring.
- The Marauders.
- The Spice Girls and trying to imitate them (obviously).
- Thinking every painting of every beautiful girl was Mom as a little girl.
- Time spent mailing drawings and letters to friends in other towns.
- Waking up all-too early to eat grapefruit for the first time with my neighbor and her daughter.
- Writing screenplays.
jan 8 2017 ∞
jun 24 2018 +
