Tonight's picture was taken in May of 2007. We took Mattie to Lancaster, PA one weekend and along our journey we came across this wonderful farm! The amazing part about all of this is I just Google this place tonight, and I can't get over how this farm has expanded! They say they provide "agri-tainment" now and they aren't kidding. For fun, you should check out their website: http://www.cherrycrestfarm.com/. All I know is Mattie would have loved all these new activities at the farm if he were alive today!
Quote of the day: The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
This is the summer of work for me. I honestly thought after the Walk I would have a moment of down time, but it isn't happening at all. Somehow that is very disturbing to me. Since I do the majority of work from home, I really do need to carve out time to get outside and interact with people and the world. If I don't make a concerted effort, it would be very easy NOT to!
At some point today, I walked to our new neighborhood cafe that was just constructed. Our area really needs more places like this! In any case, while in the restaurant waiting for my sandwich, I heard music playing. The music sounded familiar. It was just instrumental in this case, and as I kept listening to it, I tried to place how I knew it! Then it hit me. Of course I knew it! I knew it very well. It was the adorable song from the movie Dumbo, called Baby of Mine. Any one who has ever watched Dumbo, knows that Mrs. Jumbo (Dumbo's mom) gets locked up in a cage and labeled as a "mad elephant." Dumbo is lost and very sad without his mom. One night Dumbo's buddy, Timothy, the mouse, sneaks Dumbo to visit his mom by her cage. When mom and baby reunion, this is when Disney plays for us "Baby of Mine." It is a song that I used to sing to Mattie. I included the link below in case you have NO IDEA what I am talking about. At the end of the song, both mom and baby must part from each other, and that scene gets me every time. It gets me because it captures maybe 1/100th of the pain of what it felt like to have to say good-bye to Mattie.
In any case, I went into this cafe feeling one way today, but after hearing the song, I have to say it changed my mood completely. Not necessarily for the better. It always amazes me how the senses can transform an experience, a minute, or even a day for us. But what it also points out to me is grief is ever present and really not that far from the surface of our consciousness. It doesn't need much to trigger a feeling or a reaction. For me it is always music to evoke feelings and memories and Baby of Mine will always remind me of the many times Mattie and I watched Dumbo together and how I am missing my baby of mine!
Baby of Mine ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oSdgIDyl6Q
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