child-like innocence

do you still have it? did you lose it? ever catch yourself recapturing it?


Today in the woods i watched a spider in its web eat some kind of insect. They were both no bigger than the head of a pushpin. i just sort of stumbled on it and watched the scene for maybe 20 minutes in open-mouthed fascination. Who can relate?

[Edited on May 28, 2005 by pmonkey]

ok, this is more child-like sense of wonder, but that made a poor title. please, continue...

[Edited on May 28, 2005 by pmonkey]

Me.

This morning I walked to my car to get something. I was barefoot. While walking back, I took a good 5 minutes to splash in the puddles from this morning's rain.

I'll sit and watch ants carrying food and whatnot back to their anthill.

[Edited on May 28, 2005 by BlueValentine]

Sometimes i develop crushes on girls that are not at all sexual. I just sit there in awe of their "girlness." I don't think about nailing them, I just want to hold their hand or make them laugh, or stick my tongue out at them. And I get all silly about it. At heart I think I'm a 5 year old when it comes to love sometimes.

I still spend hours feeding ants to ant lions in the sand dunes up in Michigan during the summer.

I miss Michigan in the summer too.

I still play with dolls and spend hours in Toys-R-Us, not buying anything, just playing. I also still HAVE to sleep with my baby security blanket and stuffed elephant or I will flip out and not be able to sleep.

I still sleep with a stuffed animal

At least I am not alone.

i *act* childish on a regular basis.

i don't think that's quite the same thing though, is it?

My babies.

Sockie the Sock Monkey is officially in love.

You know that blanket used to be bright pink, soft and full, and had a rainbow silk border.....

i thought it was a mop head...

Shoosh you. It's Pinky. My beloved blanket I have had for 18 years!

Holding hands is better than sex...at least most of the time

gone forever in me that is..

...but i do appreciate it in other very much

[Edited on May 28, 2005 by tornupbiker]

This is Holden Caulfield Hargreaves.

He is a ring-tailed lemur.

Childlike Empress?

great now i have to watch that movie.

did i ever have it?

I see it in my daughter everyday and it comes to life in me when I see her. Something about babies just does it every time.

My beautiful little princess.

[Edited on May 28, 2005 by wyldechylde]

Me too. I had no idea all the silly songs and rhymes I had stored away in my head till I had my daughter. We have a lovely time being silly kids together and blowing raspberries on each others' bellies.

Of course, I never stopped playing on jungle gyms and starting food fights. Nobody told me I had to stop, so I havent.

I don't have the innocence, but i do have an intense passion for things. Jumping in like i have nothing to loose. It's freeing and pure.

I still wear the SAME footie-pajamas.....200 lbs later.