OT: To the Moms here

You are extremely well-informed, and probably a fan of folk music and harmonic rock'n'roll. We had some wonderful times in those days, mixed with some not so good -- like being refused service in a waffle shop because Donny White was with us. Sheesh. Plus most were not making a lot of money, but enough to get by, and that was all most people wanted. Sometimes someone like Peter, Paul and Mary would turn up, and we would be so glad to see someone who was actually doing well. Mary and I liked the same dress shop in Coral Gables.

So many of the old gang are gone, now. Some much too soon. What's really shocking is to hear their tunes playing on tv commercials! I guess our parents were wrong about the music rotting our brains after all. ;-)

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Pogonip
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I guess so...lol. My father and Mom2 sent the book "Puff the Magic Dragon" to my daughter for her birthday. It has a cd in there with Peter Yarrow singing Puff as well as a couple of other songs - with HIS daughter singing with him!! And another generation has fallen in love with a dragon . Of course, I had to explain why I was crying when the song was playing - my Dad used to sing it to me every night to help me fall asleep, and I always thought it sad that Jackie went away and Puff was left alone - the book has a little girl peeping out at the end...maybe Jacqueline, who knows....but even at a young age, I thought it sad that people grew up and left those friends of childhood behind.

So I guess I'm "corrupting" another generation...lol. DH doesn't really "get" the music that I listen to. We find common ground in modern praise and worship songs, song country music, and very rarely, headbanging rock of the 80s....I'm ecclectic, he's just odd.

Larisa

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offkilterquilter

You still have The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and other Shel Silverstein books, and the Fedge books by Jeff Comanor (my ex-BIL) who wrote songs with Silverstein. For songs, there's Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie. Lots of fun!

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Pogonip

Own The Giving Tree and WHere the SIdewalk Ends...don't have any others...yet. Dad is working on providing me with the original recordings of the songs he used to sing me to sleep with, so eventually the children will hear them all!!

Larisa

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offkilterquilter

How wonderful to start new traditions. Your children will read those books and sing those songs to theirs one day.

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Pogonip

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