"You can Fly!"
At least I thought I could. Back when they delivered your milk in bottles cars had fins TV was small b&w, and Good King John was on the Throne. Back in the glorious times when comic books were 10. cents, and they 'gave' you a 'free Coke' with your Hot Dog at the movies...
We knew the stars, and their arraignment as constellations. So we knew it when something new appeared...oh those magical ships of stars. We lived in an age of Miracles.
I felt truly believed that I could perch on the windowsill of my boyhood bedroom. Then leap into the air into the starry night and fly to my Aunt Sybil's house to surprise her. There's my own self above when had them dreams of flight.
I think kids 'do' fly and perform any number of miraculous acts as a matter of norm. However, they don't tell us.
Perhaps the "Peter Pan" myth is an echo their adventures. Maybe there is a Far side of the Moon Never-land or any of the thousand names the culture of children have for the "Magic Place".
Maybe without knowing that's what we're all trying to re-capture.
Well to all the 'old' children out there...Bless you and keep looking.
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