Slim Randles' Home Country
The stronger winds of March
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[February 12, 2015]
Mabel
Adams was out the other day, with her new walker, the one with the
basket on it, and a seat for sitting when she gets tired. It’s a
purple kind of walker and she likes it. It has hand brakes, too,
just like a bicycle. |
She was headed for the Curl Up ‘N Dye beauty salon to get her
permanent renewed, and she had to pass by the elementary school on
her way.
And there were half a dozen kids trying to get kites to fly in the
gentle breezes of February.
They can’t wait, she thought, for the stronger winds of March.
They’ll run and the kites will billow up behind them, but they’ll
have to stop short of the chain link fence, and the kites will
flutter down like spent butterflies. She could read their minds, of
course. Hey, maybe if I run faster … Mabel smiled and shook her
head.
Can’t wait for March. Childhood is like that. It’s a can’t-wait
time. When you’re eight years old, time crawls by so very slowly. It
takes forever to become eight and a half. Lifetimes. Why, when
you’re eight, and you finally make it to eight and a half, you’ve
accumulated a wealth of learning and experience in those six months.
Well, in those five months, anyway, because you can’t wait for six
months, so you declare you’re eight and a half at five months.
Push it. Hurry up. Make the winds of Spring come sooner. Won’t I
ever be eight and three quarters? Will my birthday never come?
School will be out for the summer in May, but by May, I’ll probably
be grown up.
Mabel waved to the kids and they “Hi Mrs. Adams’d” her and went back
to their play.
If only, she thought … if only the time went by as slowly for me,
instead of racing along.
[Text from file received from
Slim Randles] |
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