A TOUCH OF NOSTALGIA FROM 1984

 

Nature Boy

There was a boy...

A very strange, enchanted boy.

They say he wandered very far, very far

Over land and sea.

A little shy and sad of eye

But very wise was he,

And then one day,

One magic day he passed my way,

And while we spoke of many things,

Fools and Kings,

This he said to me,

The greatest thing you'll ever learn

Is just to love and be loved in return.

~ Eden Ahbez~

 This photo is of our son when we were visiting family in England in the summer of 1984. He was six years old, and we were in the Malvern Hills of Worcestershire. I orchestrated the photo a little. You can barely see the tiny Star Wars figure clutched in his left hand. I was trying to get him and the wildflowers in the same photo, but he was more interested in running around playing Star Wars. (Mentioning the movie in my missives the other day, I think it jogged my memory and I searched out this picture.) When I asked him to look at the flowers he stopped for a couple of seconds, I took my photo quickly, and off he went running. He was happy and so was I. I got this photo.