Triggering Memories. 02/03/2010
 What triggers your special childhood memories? It is funny how some of our best child hood memories are often because of the simplest things. I spent a relaxing evening watching TV with Reg last night while I did a few creative activities. In the mystery series Reg likes to watch, this couple arrived home to this dimly lit house. In the TV show, the man picks up a remote control, clicks it and the next second there was a roaring fire in the fireplace. How do they do that? Fire is fascinating to watch, I think electric fireplaces. are amazing. I am going to love our review tour of dog friendly caravan parks this year but Reg and I will still want to have some free bushland camps, as we would miss our camp fire, too much if we spent all our time in places where we could not have a fire. When I was ten, we lived at a house with an open fireplace. I remember one cold rainy night my mum created a special evening, to always, remember. We gathered around the fire, initially reading books together. Then when the pine cones were glowing in the hearth, we made toast over the coals and ate it dripping in butter, and mum told us a ghost story. It is not part of my memory of that evening, but looking back now, I realize we must have had no power. I get my work holistic traits, (I now try to modify to a more balanced lifestyle), from having learned them from my mother. Mum would have normally been working, (part from necessity) I realize. One other trait I picked up from mum was to turn lemons, (that cold powerless night), into lemonade. Mum created a wonderful atmosphere and a night that I still remember and can relate to with pleasure, more than fifty years later. Do you have any special childhood memories that stem from sitting around a fire with loved ones? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This post is illustrated by the card I have made from my camp fire , in the Pilbara, WA, painting, above, available from my cards-art.com web site ~ (see side bar for link) and by my fridge magnet of the same work, below, available from the Western Australia, landscape pages on this website. These art/craft/prints are also available to purchase, ‘direct from artist’, under our caravan awning studio, while we are on tour.  Comments Comments are closed. |
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