Childhood’s messages come quietly along tucked precariously behind ears that also balance eyeglasses.When they wobble and threaten to fall, they are wedged unceremoniously back in place.
Some old messages need to be tossed in the shredder,
but some old messages do have value.
Still others need to be reworded with today’s language.
Wah-Wah-Wah may be more important now.
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough
information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
~ Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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