BAD! Kitty Art Studio ~ Artist Blog~ Sunday & my world is at rest

"Every time you meet a situation,

though you think at the moment

it is an impossibility

and you go through the tortures of the damned,

once you have met it

and lived through it

you find that forever

after you are freer than you were before."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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Once there was a little girl,

who loved to swing on the

old oak plank rope swing in the back yard of her

grandparents ancient home

thick with the smell of the Florida Gulf waters

swimming in her lungs.

She would swing as high as she could

legs pumping like pistons,

the rope making the tree limbs

groan like a heart breaking.

She would reach the highest point she could

when the swing was so fast and strong

that her insides felt like they

were going to be outside,

then and only then

would she throw her head back

long hair flying wildly and tangling in the rope

and let the ground rush up to meet her

and watch the world from

upside down

while the swing slowly

slowed down and

came to rest.

Most times she would

continue to hang there

upside down

looking up through the paper bark

tree leaves, the sun so hot and huge in the sky

the blood would start rushing to her head.

When she sat up finally

and righted the world again, there

was always a touch of

sadness at the corners her full mouth.

Swinging was great,

it was the stopping that was hard to do.

Looking into the mirror I recognize that girl.

I still like viewing the world

upside down, with my hair in my face,

and the inside rushing

out.

I am no longer sad when I swing.

I am freer than I was then,

as a girl in the backyard of indifferent

family members.

I let those memories surface

so that I may keep that little girl around for a bit longer,

I am no longer that person,

but she was a sweet little girl once,

and I like to remember

her swinging

her head thrown back and clean

hair dragging in the dry dust at her feet.

I like to think about her hanging there,

suspended in time

looking at the world upside down

and knowing

she was right.

Be well today,

& may you have a most wonderful Sunday,

Heather

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