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Quick Look
Quick Look
Quick Look
Cheers
Give a Cheer
Give a Cheer
This was created for the Stalker Challenge over at Scraps of Darkness.
It is based on a song, Teach Your Children, written by Graham Nash for Crosby Stills Nash and Young (CSNR)
Teach Your Children by Graham Nash
You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a goodby
Don't you ever ask them why,
if they told you, you would die,
So just look at them and sigh
and know they love you...
So why diid I pick this? Oh, this LO and this song have so much meaning for me. This past March 2011, my oldest son left home 56 days before high school graduation to move from NY to Atlanta. He gave me 3 days notice and then he was gone. Hard? Can't even begin to tell you how hard this decision was for me to hear and accept.
I have to console myself with the knowledge that I have raised him alone and taught him morals, faith and a code that he can live by. Now he has to become himself and dig deep to bring those lessons to the surface.
So about the LO... the darkness of the layout is how I feel at times as I think about how close he was to graduating. Why a flower for a photo instead of my son? The flower photo represents young hopeful blooms, when the confusion clears and he really hits his full bloom, he will be a magnificent and awesome person to admire like a gorgeous flower.
The butterfly mask represents a butterfly I cannot catch and not mine to keep, just fluttering away. Very much like my son.
And an extra side note on the tie in of the song, my son told me last week that he wants to be a teacher. I have always told him how great he is with young kids and that he'd be a natural at teaching.
I thought he always heard this when I spoke to him....lalalalalalalalala huh? What did you say. But he actually did hear me. "...And know they love you"
Having so much fun using this kit. Gracious thanks to MelindaK for inviting me to dabble with the kit, give it a whirl and see what I can make from it. Packed with so much scrappy fun.
I took the photo standing in my neighbors yard and this time I asked permission. I'm done creeping around at 6am looking like an odd ball or "stalking" like the challenge title suggest. .
Thanks for looking
Thanks for spreading positivity!
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