The Red Balloon Is Here! The Red Balloon Is Here!
I found myself squealing with unprecedented youthful delight.
He at his computer, unimpressed replies – “oh that’s nice honey”
and without pause goes back to what he was doing.
Awaking with a tinge of blue hovering around my disposition this morning,
with sponge in hand and sink graced with the remains of last nights dinner,
I stood contemplating the future events of my day,
when all of a sudden it bounced right in front of my window.
That is when the forementioned squealing commenced as I watched it
hop (not drift) along my neighbors side yard.
A rather choppy flight and not appearing to be in any particular hurry despite the slightly assertive wind.
I ran to the next window to see where it was headed and found it was stuck under a cypress tree.
It seemed to be held in tightly by the branches, and I stepped away to get my camera.
A few seconds later, all ready to take a good shot, it was gone and no where to be seen.
Swiftly I navigated around the internal periphery of my house
looking out every window to see if I could spot it, but it was nowhere to be found.
I am accepting this gift of levity and taking it as a sweet and gentle reminder
to get out of my head, get outside and light-heartedly bounce around a bit – see where the day takes me.
Thanks for the inspiration, powers that be…

Every year in the beginning of summer our entire elementary school would await the day
our teacher would announce that we would be seeing ‘The Red Balloon.’
This announcement was not only deeply anticipated because we enjoyed the movie so much,
but it’s viewing was also a sure sign that in a matter of days we would be free to fly off on our respective adventures wherever the summer should take us.

Did they ever play this movie in class at your school?

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