I’m jealous of my twenty year old daughter. Makes me sound mean and nasty, doesn’t it? Oh, I’m not jealous of her youth, or glowing skin. I invoke no envy at her lack of adult responsibilities, or good health, or pretty face. No, none of these things squeeze my green streak.
What makes that said green streak glow with energy is thoughts of all the opportunities available to her and her generation.
Recently I read a blog about the Black Plague. Briefly, the author mentioned the nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosy.” I always knew it came from the Black Plague, but for some reason it hit me just then that it had been passed down child to child for over 600 years! A long time for a song to survive.
What about “London Bridge is Falling Down?” which is from when the London Bridge was actually crumbling under Londoner’s feet. According to Walt Disney’s The Truth About Mother Goose (1957) the rhyme refers to the deterioration of the original London Bridge (built in 1176, which had been considered a wonder of the world), due to a combination of age and the Great Fire of London in 1666. (Wikipedia)
