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Hanging Around

In Granny's backyard I'm hanging around upside down from my favorite tree making funny faces at my cousin, while we try not to laugh because down below the circle of grown-ups hardly know or have forgotten we are here So we hear all the choice gossip as the older women snap their green beans with enjoyment keen They cackle and squawk rowdy, raucous laughing talk flapping and waggling large wing-like arms like a flock of hens roosting on metal lawn chairs not feeling the stares of me and my cousin enjoying the show finding out all kinds of things and colorful words we wanted to know, but would never have heard down on the ground!

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Arthur Vaso

Date: 10/20/2018 10:49:00 PM

Made me smile, just thinking of such youth!

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 10/20/2018 9:39:00 PM

I love this one so much! About twenty-two percent of my paintings are of a woman or a girl hanging upside down with her hair flying down from the limb of a tree. I can so picture this, and you are right. The instant you were discovered, all grown up conversation would be shelved. I wish the adults of today understood the importance of shielding the youngsters from every sorted detail of adult land. I do believe in the end you were probably caught though, because when you are with a cousin ....

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 10/20/2018 9:56:00 PM

I had a feeling you would like this one! ;) And, yes- I was usually caught when my cousin was there as we would end up giggling at each other (or something the women said)... And you're right, adults of today do need to be more careful to censor themselves. (Although my grandmother didn't exactly "censor" herself- she just shooed all the children away to play somewhere else! ;P)

Maureen Mcgreavy

Date: 10/20/2018 9:15:00 PM

Ha! Awesome :))) vivid scene xomo!

Rhona Mcferran
Date: 10/20/2018 9:50:00 PM

Thank you, my friend! ;)