I’ve been feeling nostalgic lately, which is dangerous because nostalgia has a way of making absolutely ordinary things from childhood seem magical.
Today I saw a kid who looked about seven or eight years old carrying a shiny new iPad, and it sent me straight back to elementary school.
Back then, a new folder could make my entire week.
A folder with a glossy finish? Jackpot.
Multicolored pens? Forget it. I had arrived.
There was something intoxicating about school supplies when you were a kid. A fresh notebook, a perfectly sharpened pencil, a pen in a color you had never seen before. It was basically winning the lottery. Except the lottery was available at the stationery aisle of the local store.
Times have changed.
Apparently, children now get iPads.
We got three-ring binders and felt rich.
Which brings me to the Powerball, currently sitting there looking mighty tempting.
Maybe nostalgia has convinced me that I should buy a ticket and finally experience the adult version of the shiny folder.
Although, realistically, my odds are terrible.
So perhaps I’ll stick with my fancy blue fine-tip gel pens.
They write beautifully.
And unlike the lottery, I know exactly where I can buy another one.
Categories: childhood, Children, current events, identity, mental health, Psychology
psychologistmimi 
Wishing all school children (and their teachers) had nothing more important to look forward to than using those new supplies to learn about their world and themselves.
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Yes, yes, yes!
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‘Four Score and Seven Years Ago’
Keeping “We the People Bound”
In Elegant Lincoln Wit and
Penmanship For Real
So far Away too from
Obsolete Copper pennies
Oh What School Supplies
Will Do When Focused only
at the Pen at Hand Unfortunately
Dear Miriam just too many Temptations
of Distractions in Instant gratification for
Modern Human Children to come to the attention
span and focus required to Paint another Sistine
Chapel
Ceiling
Or Sculpt a
David even
a free style ‘Fred’
True i had to escape
all of that to do this too
Problem for me Dysgraphia
Oh How Modern Tools of Technology
Aid the Once Functionally Disabled
For a New Creation of Humanity
even in one Human Not Possible
Before without the Tools Hehe
sort of Like my Eyeglasses too
Sort of Like the Military Gym
And Yes those K-Mart Plastic
Covered Weights in Middle
School my Mother Purchased
For me at 12 Years Old
assisting my desire
to be stronger
than weaker
Still Leg
Pressing
at age 66 1540
Pounds 12 Reps
That Child Once
named Bird Legs
Perhaps a Prophecy
To Dancing Fly an Inch
Above Terrestrial Smooth
Store Dance Floors
Yes More creative
than bored indeed
Without all anxiety
i owe so many colors
of my Life in Flow to the ‘Revenge
of the Nerds’ now living in their
Systemizing Worlds setting the
Wings of my SouL Free as a Digital
Keyboard playing becomes notes of Soul
Free to
Dance
and Sing
Without restraint
of a Pen and only Chicken Scratch
Hehe true all i could have done before
is reach down and scratch
Something in the
Soils below
my Feet
Before Wings
Came Free from
This Digital Keyboard And Screen for Real
Music of my Soul So Deep Dancing
Singing Newly Now every Digital Key
Opening New Rooms Doors
From Within so Free
Cyborg i be
For Real Hybrid too
Avatar Words Wings Soul Free…
Yet It’s True without the Emotional
Regulation and Sensory Integration
that 24,288 Miles of Public Dance Brings
in Spiraling Milky Way Dance over 13 Years
all naturally innately
instinctually
Intuitively
free still
generating from Within
With Never a Lesson or Rule before
Not Likely that the More Challenging
Imbalances on the Autism Spectrum
And Bi-Polar Spectrum And ADHD
Spectrum even Hyperlexia
Spectrum and all the
Intense Tactile
And Other
Empathic
Sensory
Spidey Ways
of Being Would Have
come Now and Spun
16.3 MiLLioN Words
of EPiC Long Form
Free Verse Poetry
on a Web ThiS WaY
Free in an Anthology
of Poetic Responses
to Folks God Yes All around
Our Globe ‘small world after
all’ Now in Thirteen Years too
With a Little Bite of an ‘Apple’ Still
Now from someone Who Believed
it is the ‘Crazy’ and Depressed
Enough Folks
Like Lincoln
to Change
Their Worlds
at Least out of all
The Caterpillar Stumbling
Legs and Long Cocoons of before…
As always seeking finding a balance
that plays well
to put all
the pieces
back together again
hehe Like any ‘Eggman or Walrus’ Will in just another ‘Day in the Life’
Indeed make the Best of Your School Supplies Dear Miriam
A ‘Blue fine tip Gel Pen’ brings a sense and feel of focus
and attention span too
Hehe and so Much
Cheaper than
Modern Apples
for the functionally
disabled like me with SMiLes..:)
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I loved pencil cases and still have one to this day.
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Oh how nice!
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