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Raindrops of an April PastPosted Apr-09-08 13:00:33 PDT Updated Apr-10-08 20:54:17 PDT Was it Only me? Or was it So Many? When One gets Older, is it a Normal Occurence to Regularly Begin Recalling the Seemingly Care-Free Days of Grade School ~ So Long Ago ~ to Remember the Way You and Your Classmates Celebrated the Changing Months and Seasons ~ Duly Inspired by the Old Maid School Teacher (my School was Full of These Fine Ladies) ~ Huge Jars of White Paste, Crisp Colorful Construction Paper, Assorted String, Scraps of Yarn, Bits of Crayon ~ Those Huge Room-Long Blackboards, on All Sides of the Room Except for the Wall where Huge Windows Grandly Presided ~ a Large Part of the Black Expanse Covered with Construction Paper, Designating the Earth and Sky ~ a Grand Canvas on Which Every Child in the Class was Nearly Constantly Represented ~ Now Slightly Fading Construction Paper March Kites with Real Fabric Tails Delicately Being Removed One by One on a Chilly April Day (what did that Teacher do with all those Old Construction Figures? We Never Got Them and Never Knew) ~ Replaced with the Colorful Construction Paper Umbrellas to Ward off the Construction Paper April Rain ~ Construction Paper Children, One for Each Classmate, now Dressed in Brightly Colored Rain Coats and Rubber Boots ~ Gray Construction Paper Clouds in the Once Bright White Cotton Ball Clouded Windy Sky where the March Kites Flew ~ and Construction Paper Raindrops Raining Down Upon the Entire Construction Paper Class, Safe and Dry Under the Bright Construction Paper Umbrellas ~ the Seemingly Care-Free Days of Shirley Temple Curls, the Lone Ranger and Sky King (and Penny), Mighty Mouse and the Mysterious Macho Mustached Zorro ~ Life Seemed So Much Simpler Then ~ as the Girls in My Class Looked on with Amazement and Admiration at the Bouffant Hair Styles on the Older Girls, so Prevalent Then, Some Tinted a Glorious Champagne Pink, and the Very Rare Palest of Greens ~ Decked Out in Their New Spring Finery, Searching for the Ideal Crew-Cut Prom Date Quarry ~ There were No Home Computers Then, the Entertainment Center was a Radio, maybe a Hi-Fi and a Black and White TV ~ and if Anything, the TV Commercials were Much More Appealing Then, Simple Speedy Alka-Seltzer, Headaches Represented by Hammers Pounding in a Cartoon Image Head ~ Promises of Wonderful May Flowers Made Possible by the Dreary Chilly April Rains ~ with Dreams of the Real-Life Ribboned May Pole Already Looming Large ~ and New Patent Leather Mary Janes ~ and Oh, What Fabulous Spring Dress would a Young Girl Wear for Such a Festive Occasion that Finally Arriving, Took Too Short a Time to Complete? But so Very Long to Practice For ~ as the Teacher Once Again Reminded Us that the Time was Imminent but the Weather Too Rainy and Much Too Tempermental to Bring Out Her Grandly Coveted Magnificent May Pole with the Long and Wide Beautiful Floaty Ribbons in Every Imaginable Shade of Pastel.
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