Good morning! Thursday I was reading Jenny Hansen’s blog and came upon this fantastic post! You can find her “where I’m from” post by clicking on her grand name right up there. Go ahead! Click it! The original idea and post comes from here, found on the amazing blog of Sharla Lovelace.
I am from AM/FM radios, from Sunkist orange soda and chalking in the street with slate.
I am from the city of neighborhoods, banging on heater pipes, close-knit neighbors and the smell of chemical plants mixed with fresh-cut grass.
I am from the dandelions treated as high-class flowers, penny candy stores, cassette tapes and playing “suicide” wall ball.
I am from Gram’s house for every family holiday and big noses along with long legs, from Patti and Jim and Arvilla and Barbara.
I am from the grips of procrastination and alcoholism. I am from huge hearts and a great love of nature and living while letting live.
From “it gets better” and “you’re worth it.”
I am from being baptized Catholic while never living in the Catholic traditions. I am from going to a Lutheran church with my Gram almost every Sunday and thinking how ginormous the minister looked.
I’m from Philadelphia, Somers Point, New Jersey, Italy and Russia. I am from spaghetti and meatballs, potato salad and kick ass hams.
From the romantic trysts of Jim & Patti on the sun-baked streets of Bridesburg, the coal miner’s daughter who told me grand stories of upstate Pennsylvania and a grandfather who lost two of his fingers in a coal mine at the CCC camps back in the 1920’s.
I am from these two beautiful people. That’s where I’m from. Where are you from?
Beautiful.
Thank you, Emma. 🙂
I love it, Darlene!! And I got a very clear image of how you grew up. Thanks for the shout-out. 🙂
I loved doing this! It was tons of fun thinking about what has actually made me… me! My pleasure on the shout-out. Have a wonderful rest of your day! 😉
A great fine, Darlene, thanks for sharing it.
Thanks so much! Happy that you enjoyed it. 🙂
That was a fun read:-)
Thanks, k! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
What a lovely post! Making a note to copy your idea – love it!
Thanks, Gay! Have fun! 😀
Thanks for sharing that, Darlene. Very cool. I need to think mine through a little 🙂
Awesome, Joanna… have fun with it. 🙂
Yeep! (As one of my cutie kindergarten students used to say 🙂
I love it. I hope to do this exercise myself! I saw you were at Sharla’s before me! Maybe next week for me. Great job. It’s nice to know more about you.
Hey Renée! Glad you dig it… 🙂 I had so much fun doing this…. Looking forward to reading yours… take care.