My mother called me a flibbertigibbet. She was not being insensitive. I am amused by silly songs and anything else for that matter.
I love interacting with a two-year-old child. We understand each other. I love it when their imaginations awaken.
I drive to the top of a hill and gasp. The beauty of the scenery takes my breath away.
I will dance anywhere. Not like no one is watching. I do not care who is watching.
From the time they were very small my children and I would go out to dance in the rain.
Elm trees have seed pods that have sort of a tail to catch the wind to blow them to new locations. We call them helicopters because the tail spins as it falls. One time my granddaughter took a double handful of helicopters to her upstairs bedroom. She tossed them out the window. They caught a little updraft. It separated and lifted them before they spun to the ground. It was glorious!
The man who bought the farm my mother-in-law and father-in-law had owned before they died said he welcomed anyone from the family to walk the hills they had owned. We were overjoyed. Every time anyone comes to visit we climb the hill and roll down.
You have not lived until you bend over to smell a flower. Then you examine every petal and leaf. Enjoy the colors. Watch them close for the night. Or open in the morning.
As you know I love music. If I hear a song I know I sing along. Of course I cannot carry a tune. Does that stop me? No. My children and grandchildren have on occasion asked me to stop.
One day I was walking with my son and daughter. I told them I knew it was hard having me for a mother.
They said, "Not really. We thought all mothers were like that."
thecontemplativecat here. You and I are sisters in spirit. I loved doing those things with my kids, and now by my self. Husband watches and smiles.
ReplyDeleteI can be a trial sometimes. I just find grown-ups so stuffy.
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ReplyDeleteYou haven't lived until you've bent down to smell a flower. Then you examine every petal and leaf. You enjoy the colors. Watch them close for the night. Or open in the morning.
Thanks Emma!
You are welcome. Enjoying simple things let us know how complex Thedy really are.
DeleteI Love how you lived dear Emma 👍🥰
ReplyDeleteIt’s true way I believe,without engaging the useless thoughts ,enjoying your life simply.
Finding pleasure in small simple moments and being with nature who is not fake in any manner at all
Hats off to your wish to live life to fullest 🥰♥️👌🫂
There is so much beauty and good around us. We just have to be smart enough to see it.
DeleteIf this is what a flibbertigibbet is, then I think we need many more of them.
ReplyDeleteI agree. We could all dance in the rain together.
DeleteEmma, of course, I was curious as to whether or not there was a dictionary definition for a flibberigibbet and sure enough there is... frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person, and if that's what you mother called you then she was most likely correct and in a GOOD way. Seeing the beauty from a hilltop view, watching an lm seedling helicopter down to the ground, bending down to enjoy a flower are some of the joys of nature to be enjoyed at any age. Do you and your family still visit the farm and roll down that hill?
ReplyDeleteWe still visit the farm. Unfortunately since my stroke I can no longer climb the hill. The rest all have a good time rolling down. Was my picture in the dictionary next to flibbertigibbet?
DeleteNice to read that the hill rolling continues, and no your photo was somehow omitted 😏
DeleteOf course, when I saw the title of your post, I instantly started singing "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" from "The Sound of Music"! I know you thought of this too!
ReplyDeleteI believe in living life not just existing. Maria lived too.
DeleteEvery time I see or hear the word ‘flibbertigibbet’ my mind goes immediately to the scene in The Sound Of Music film where the nuns are telling the mother abbess (actress Peggy Wood) what they think of Maria and say in turn she’s ‘a flibbertigibbet’, ‘a Will-o’-the-wisp”, ‘a clown’ and then Sister Margaretts says, “I’d like to say a word in her behalf. Maria makes me — laugh!”. Sister Margaretta is, of course, played by the actress Anna Lee who went on to play Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital for several decades. It’s amazing what a single word can do!
ReplyDeleteP.S.- I wrote my comment before reading any of the other comments and now see that the commenter before me mentioned the same thing. I didn’t read it first, pinky swear.
ReplyDeleteI comment before reading other comments too. I am happy that so many have seen The Sound of Music.
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