Imagine Part II

Funny I have all this running through my mind at 2 am. Worked until 11 pm last evening and was sleeping very well until I woke up needing some Zincum Metallicum for my RLS. You can look all that up if you are that interested.

As I reread my post on Imagine to make sure it was all spelled correctly and made grammatic sense I thought of another line of Imagination. Imaginary playmates. I often wondered if generations more recent than mine had imaginary playmates. Our children didn't seem to have any. They were all close in age so it might have been they didn't ever sense the need for imaginary friends.

But the other day we were informed that Gannon had joined Jill's family thanks to an invitation and the imagination of Mari. What a hoot it was to learn of Gannon. I haven't spoken to or visited with Arky in about 52 or 3 years now. I trust he is doing well. The last time I can actually remember speaking with him was in Tulsa on North Main street. We lived in a rented 2 story house on the west side of the street. It's the house where Yvonne experimented with flight from the second story window while mom watched in horror from her ironing board.

I don't know if Yvonne's imaginary friend, Duty, went along on her short but direct flight or not. I know she was seldom without Duty in those days. I think we moved from North Main to West 8th street and it must have been around the move that Arky drifted off to other regions. I don't recall him coming by after that.

As I said, Arky and I had our last adventure of my recollection on North Main. I can pretty clearly remember what we were doing on a very warm, cloudless day. We were pulling dandilion flowers out of the yard and splitting the bottom of the stem with a fingernail and then dropping them into the open holes of blocks along the edge of the cement driveway where the water captured in the holes would cause the stems to continue splitting as they absorbed the water until the stems were two long, curled legs joined at the flower.

I always regarded that as a true natural phenomon. One I was proud to share with Arky as I enlightened him on most rare and wonderful things in and around us in our back and front yards.

I miss you Arky. You never questioned me but was always in total awe of my scientific powers and insight. No one has been since then. Did you really have to go?