Jun 12 2009
Only the Good Friday…
Only the Good Friday is hosted by the eclectic, but multi-talented Shelly.
When you’re a child, your world is filled with nursery rhymes, jump rope jingles, and sometimes the seemingly “strange” action and verse.
As a child, I was part of a strange game, ritual, etc… Every time one of my brothers or sister found a “dandelion puff,” we would chant the following:
“Momma had a baby and her head popped off.”
When we got to the “head popped off” part, we would flick the puff off with our thumb and watch the seeds fly off into the air. Where in the world this childhood “ritual” came from I’ll never know. What I do know is recently I was in Santa Fe, New Mexico hiking and photographing with some new friends.
You know what happens next…
Yep, I saw a dandelion puff and felt encouraged, compelled to pluck it and repeat my childhood ritual. It felt like I was transported in time back a few years, decades, eons to my carefree childhood summer days when it seemed all I had to worry about was to not get sunburned. My friend Luz remarked that she had never heard that rhyme. So I ask you gentle reader, have you ever “popped the head” off Momma’s baby? Is this a midwest ritual? Inquiring minds want to know!
Nevertheless, it’s good to go back in time to visit our childhoods – if only for a few magical moments…
Nope, never heard that one. But I may try it the next time I find a dandelion in full bloom!
back when and now….if you saw or see and dandelion puff, you plucked it…made a wish and if you blew all the puff off…your wish came true…I don’t think it worked that I remember but you can always try….never heard of your thing before….Tom Robbins says, “It is never too late to have a happy childhood.”…..I don’t know if that works either…but we can try…..
Desert: I really got warm fuzzies reading this post!! We used to blow the dandelion heads into the wind after making a wish. We were certain the wish would come true and the wishes were all about boys!!!! What a great post!!