Bright sun-shiny day- kids gamboling in the playground like lambs in the mud , coats thrown off , enjoying the suns rays.
All snow is gone in most of the town places but we, in the bush have lots yet. Another sleep will bring less... Still the sleeping bulbs are popping through the earth and tickling the snow with their green noses.
Sleep I need!
Calls to mind the night prayer from Hansel and Gretel for some reason. Maybe relaxing on the couch with the kids... My eyes fall on our picture on the living room wall of the sleeping small ones under an angel's wing...
When I was a child we had a set of old phonograph records of the Hansel and Gretal opera by Engelbert Humperdink.. not the pop singer some of us old fogies know....Spanish eyes... The last Waltz.. no much older than that>> This Englebert was a German opera composer from the late 1800's.
Mom bought the treasures at a garage sale along with several other albums of recordings and ...a set of golden rimmed burgundy dishes from Germany we use to this day for special occasions at Grandma's house. When I eat off those dishes I remember times listening to the beautiful music of that opera on the record player
Bits and pieces of the opera have stayed with me all these years.. especially the lullabies and night prayers.
Gloria Taliotis
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