Life used to be simpler, didn’t it? Or are we only remembering from a child’s much simpler viewpoint?
Do you remember walking through fields and scaring up huge juicy grasshoppers that spit “tobacco” on your hands when you caught them?
Do you remember decorating your bike with streamers to ride it in the 4th of July parade?
Do you remember listening for the ice cream man and running like mad to get money before he passed your house?
Do you remember playing “hide n’ seek” in the twilight relishing those last few minutes before the street lights came on and you would be called home?
Do you remember the smell of burning leaves in the fall before that was banned for cleaner air?
Do you remember who was the perfect light stringer, ornament hanger, or tinsel spreader when you put up a Christmas tree?
Do you remember banging on pots and pans when the clock struck twelve, to ring in the New Year?
What are the sights, smells, and sounds that trigger that memory of simpler times for you?
Watch for the airstream on the beach and smile with me, remembering your simple life.
YouTube video by beanscott, October 1, 2007. “Song by Ricky Skaggs. I loved this song because it so reminded me of the kind of life my dad has lived, one of simple devotion to God, as well as his family.”