Saturday, April 11, 2009

harmonicas and car stereos

Today, as I was coming out of the big K with Easter basket booty and clean socks for the boys, I saw and heard a beautiful thing. I wish I could have video taped it. I wish I could have stayed there listening and watching.

In the very back rows of the parking lot, in the space just before mine, a red headed woman, maybe in her sixties, sat alone in the front seat of her old tan colored sedan.  She was playing her heart out on a harmonica while old style, heavy on the steel pedal country & western music was blaring from her speakers.

She seemed oblivious to me standing at my car door for a few minutes watching and listening. I hated to get in my car and drive away, but was compelled to leave her to her thing. 

I wonder how long she sat there playing. Seeing people in random places making or even enjoying music is something I don't see everyday, but I think I probably should.

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The Complete Poems
Collected Poems
Kenya: Between Hope and Despair, 1963-2011
Anti-Bias Education for young children and ourselves
I Laugh So I Won't cry: kenya's Women Tell the Stories of Their Lives
How to Be Compassionate: a Handbook for Creating Inner Peace and a Happier World
Children
The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections
The Secret Garden


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Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children
Safari Animals
Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's theory (early childhood education series
Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child
Clinical Supervision and Teacher Development


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