REPEAT BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT:
"a very merry unbirthday to me...to you..."
i'm not sure when she started...my earliest memory of my grandma marge reading "alice in wonderland" to me was when i was 10. but we had just moved back after 4 years, so it's very possible she had been reading it to me before. she told me i reminded her of alice...i was easily distracted.
FLASH FORWARD july 2004
grandma marge passed. we start going thru her scrapbook. we learn some very interesting things...she was on the ohio state homecoming court in 1938. what?! that's cool! she was a licensed pilot. what?!!!!!!!!!!! okay!! grandma!! how do you not mention these things to your granddaughter(s)??!! grandma lillie says it best "ladies never brag...and marge was a lady...". i picked up a copy of "alice in wonderland" soon after. i read it at least once a year (or did until i mis-placed my copy...time for a trip to the book store!! yay!! or better yet...someone can get me this louis vuitton edition from penguin publishing...thanks for bringing it to my attention paige!!!). it keeps her close to me.....
FLASH FORWARD today
today is "mad hatter day**"....today is a day that all the stuff we do everyday, that most people would consider sane (going to work, paying the bills, cleaning the house), is complete and utter madness...and all the stuff that makes us happy, that most people would consider madness (playing in the rain, singing at the top of our tone-deaf lungs, dancing with the devil in the pale moon light) would be deemed completely sane!! just for today...
so put on your favorite hat...and get out there and do something completely...sane!!
a gallery of silly hats:
**interesting factoid: in the illustrations, the hatter is always seen wearing a top hat with a slip reading "this style 10/6" (meaning that style hat cost 10 shilling sixpence)...so we here in america took it as a sign to act like the hatter on october 6...the english? yeah...they read the date backwards, which means they act like the hatter on june 10...since i like to write my dates backwards but am, in fact, american, i think i will act like a hatter on both dates...XD
Grandma 'Marge,' read to you from your birth forward and had you reading way before your intellect would have been suspicioned to function, estimated at age 2 to 3. You were reading newspapers for lack of materials to present. Same with your brother. Age 10 for first rememberances? give us all a break. Salvador Dali stated he recalled his own conception, I suspect you really recall much earlier. But then you always were 'putting on the hatz.' Dad
ReplyDeleteYes I realize you were speaking of only the book 'Alice in W' but that book was in her larder of tomes to an early age, Jez, she read the hobbit series as they were new books (the thirties).
ReplyDeleteBut on another topic, your father had a nick name in his basketball dayz - you won't believe it - 'Bird!' That was basketball prior to Larry, though he made the title national thru talent. I suspect I had that handle due to gawkwardness - I certainly failed at 'flying' toward the basket, but then we shot set shots from between our legs, a bit underhanded. So your selection of a Bird motif in this blog is insiteful without you having known the story. Bird is indeed the word! Did I get the last word through surprise and many years of silence? Dad
i have been, quite literally, racking my brain for a witty comeback. but every attempt at having a memory before conception sounded really creepy!! and i had NO idea that the word "bird" went so far back in my history!! for the first time in our history, i am, in fact, giving you the last word!!
Delete*this comment should in no way be looked upon as an attempt to steal said "last word"...just an acknowledgement that i read your comments and bow to the master...:)