Childhood Memories

 

 

My walk this morning was nice and cool after yesterday’s rain. I began to think about my childhood. In those days kids spent a lot of time outdoors. I think that was the beginning of my lifelong love of trees and the natural world. 

 

There were chores of course, hanging laundry on clothes lines, ironing, learning to cook and do dishes, dusting, sweeping and mopping as well. I recall that we spent most of our time at school or at home. We were self entertainers.  Most of my early passions for art and science were developed in my childhood years.

 

I have been learning slowly to try not to interfere with my daughters’ child rearing methods. They live in a very different world now than I did. I frequently read that the milinials and Gen Z generation scoffs at my generation and is impatient with our old ways. I’ve always felt that to judge other generations is foolish.

 

We old country painters are so lucky to be alive…..