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Waterbugs and Dragonflies
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| November 13, 2006, 03:54 |
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Tungmeister
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Miller Beach, Indiana, US
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Re: Waterbugs and Dragonflies
You've brought back a long forgotten, wonderful childhood memory Kev, and an experience that I haven't remembered for many years. When I was 4 maybe 5 years old a great uncle took me fishing with him on a small lake in the woods in northern Michigan where he had a cabin. We anchored the small boat near some large, smooth rocks that were sticking up just above the waterline and not far from the shoreline so we could cast toward the shore and reel our baits over the bluegill beds. At that age I guess I was more interested in what I saw on these big rocks near the boat. There were hundreds of clear, empty insect "skins", most very well intact. I was facinated with them and my great uncle August's description of where they came from (the bottom of the lake) and how they crawled out of the water onto these stones so their skins dry in the sun and split open to free the beautiful, irridescent blue & green dragonflies that were now flying around us, landing on the oars, the anchor rope and even the tips of out fishing poles. This was in the early morning sun and they just seemed to sparkle like green diamonds all around us. Thanks for stirring up that old memory from so many years ago. It's amazing how vivid again it still is, as they say "like yesterday".
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| November 13, 2006, 09:07 |
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I'm so glad it brought back such a wonderful memory for you Tung, it's amazing how events in our childhood, can have such a lasting impression on our minds. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see things around us, as if we were children again?
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| November 13, 2006, 09:18 |
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Tungmeister
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Miller Beach, Indiana, US
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It's sad how we "mature" and lose that innocent child curiousity and sense of wonderment at everthing around us, if we were only able to recapture seeing & experiencing things through a child's senses again, as if for the very first time. I guess we just got too distracted being "busy" with life.
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| November 13, 2006, 10:10 |
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Kev...thank you for the story...you are intelligent and sexy!!!
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| November 13, 2006, 21:02 |
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QUOTE (Juilianna @ November 13, 2006, 21:02)Kev...thank you for the story...you are intelligent and sexy!!!
It's a pleasure Juilianna, I hope it brings you a small degree of comfort. 
If you search on Google for "Waterbugs and Dragonflies", you should be able to find the complete story by Doris Stickney.
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