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Past Two and Growing Older
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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this forever!?" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.
Perhaps it hasn't one, Alice ventured to remark.
Tut, tut, child! said the Duchess. Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige

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::LynEve
04/30/18 12:08 AM GMT
OOOh er - not sure whether I like the look of this - I mean I DO like the look - it is very attractive but what it symbolizes is another matter. Traveling on and on over lumps and bumps no matter what - it cant be stopped except by stopping finally and completely. If only ageing could be stopped but the (so called) wisdom could be retained.

I don't think I would be very old at all if I did not know because I wait with anticipation for that wisdom to descend - or maybe I forgot it all and am already in the second childhood. Youth is wasted on the young someone said -
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::tigger3
04/30/18 1:38 PM GMT
An explosion of marvelous color! tigs=^..^=
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::Flmngseabass
04/30/18 5:31 PM GMT
Looks like I am going to need some climbing gear here John!!! Great 3-D effect!!
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::Nikoneer
04/30/18 7:10 PM GMT
Having known a lot of two-year-olds, I believe what you have here, John, is a representation of the extremely active brain of a child of that age (did I put enough "ofs" in there?). With all the quotes you use to create your submission narratives, you must have an extensive library at your disposal, plus a willingness or desire to absorb said library. I've always felt the most creative people are those who can equate the written word with visual expression, and, by extension, life itself.

By the way, I'm quite familiar with Paige. The Bismarck Churchills baseball team was an integrated semi-professional baseball team based in Bismarck, North Dakota in the 1930s (across the river from where I grew up). Led by Satchel Paige (see back row, center, of the linked photo), Vernon "Moose" Johnson, and Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, the club won the 1935 National Baseball Conference semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kansas.

-Nik
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.galaxygirl1
04/30/18 7:49 PM GMT
Pretty render I like :)
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.icedancer
05/02/18 1:20 AM GMT
Wow, absolutely fabulous and colours are so beautiful - right into my favw
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VIEWED IN FULL
.GomekFlorida
05/02/18 10:41 PM GMT
Straight out the 60's!
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Long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the dark green forests were too silent to be real. Lightfoot 1967

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