Remembering May Day
Remembering May Day
May day has been side stepped in America. This is sad as it represented a time renewal in the spring.
Back in rural Indiana we brought colored ribbons to school and at recess time the teachers helped us to attached them to the play ground equipment, which today would be considered too dangerous and too much liability for a school.
No fun left for the kids. Back to the story.
We attached the slender ribbons to a May pole and sang songs and skipped around. It was glorious. Skipping until we could barely breath, the frangance of lilacs and forsythia caused you to feel light head and the sunshine saturated us.
I went to Ralph Waldo Emerson grade school. It's not there any more. It was a 3 story school made out of red brick. Pillars stood next to the entrance and as you climbed the stairs to enter the great lobby another flight of some 30 stairs rose to the 3rd floor.
At Christmas time we stood on the stairs and sang Christmas Carols. I don't even know if you can do that today... sing Christmas Carols that is. Isn't that a frightening thought, no Christmas music.
This is about change and how some things just don't seemright when they are laid to rest.
So tomorrow I will buy ribbons and tie them to my trees and sing and remember the past and the present.
Love & blessings,
Earthangel9250
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