I'll push myself up through the dirt and shake my petals free
I'm resigned to being born and so resigned to bravery.
~Dar Williams

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Dumbo, of course.

I've always been easily riled up by social injustice. My earliest memory of such an instance was when I was 3 years old watching Dumbo being taken away from his mother. I cried and cried when Dumbo visited her in jail and she stuck her trunk outside the bars to rock him because I couldn't think of anything sadder than a child separated from his mother. Now that I'm an adult, I still can't...

I love you, Mom!

Go ahead: try to watch without crying. I dare you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORf1liT9cE

8 comments:

Jill said...

You're right. You can't watch without getting a little teary. I certainly can't think of anything worse than being seperated from my mom, unless it was being seperated from my kids.

Happy Mother's day Lynette. You are the best mother in law on the planet and I love you dearly!

David said...

Wow! I probably shouldn't have let you watch that. However, I thought it was very tender. I love you, too. Thank you for the post with all our pictures together. We make a good team--cute, too, huh?! Thanks for all you do for me!

David said...

Thank you, also Jill. It's easy to be a good mom-in-law with such neat children-in-law.

Cami said...

I like that mom, too.

Joe and Joanne said...

What a great tribute! I love the picture of you and your Mom wearing the same sandles!

That part of Dumbo made me cry every time too.

Karen said...

I hear you on the separation from the mother. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing things right...

byebyedays said...

Very cute post Lar! I haven't seen Dumbo in SO many years, that is such a cute little clip... Thanks for sharing! Happy Mother's Day to all the great women in our lives!

Jason Maestri said...

That movie is the most depressing thing ever!

Hope you are doing well. Things are crazy here as always :)