Childhood Grace

It’s been said that we fall from “childhood grace”…that is to say we let life kick us down and then we get too serious, thereby limiting ourselves.  We start out believing anything is possible: the mermaid lives in a castle by the sea, the one we made in the sand on a cheerful sunny summer day. And we can fly, oh yes.   Every little red wagon is an airplane and we are the Red Barron, even if only for a fleeting moment.  After all, it says FLYER on the side.  No one has to doubt the signs.  It works fine just the same, on your way down the sliding board runway to the cheering crowd below. 

We have to keep dreaming, for it is in our thoughts that we begin things, and in our dreams that we plant the seeds.  If we can dream it, then we can live it.  Sometimes it comes down to quieting the “noise” that we have allowed to dilute our otherwise fertile minds, i.e. our “childhood grace”.

Here are some of our automatic friends, proving the point, through music. If your day brings you down, revisit this post and remember who you are!

(1) 9 year old girl sings "God Bless The Child". (2) 10 year old Jordan playing classical piano. (3) 8 year old virtuoso violinist plays Kreisler. (4) 5 year old Takuma’s second piano recital. (5) 7 year old boy plays Chopin – Fantasie impromptu Op.66   (6) 8 year old boy plays Bach – partita in C minor.  (7) 8 year old Rachel plays Ravel: Sonatine, Movement III. (8) Young guitarist plays Duke Ellington. (9) Child jazz trio, Japan.