ooooh, Charlie

Isn’t he cute ??!? I found him tucked away in a box Mom and I organized back in 1993. Magic-marker titled, Halton Family Memories,  we planned to keep a treasure trove of favorites safely hunkered until gatherings or quiet moments beckoned their appearance where  ahhhh, we’d cheer !!  here’s to the simpler, quiet, good ol’ days ….

Oh, Charlie. You bring with you soooooo many childhood emotions. As if you and I were trying to figure out this journey called Life simultaneously. And kudos to your creator Charles M. Schultz, philosopher extraordinaire ♥  for he made the being here and doing this make sense to my not so sure self. At the time though, Charlie, when I was just as confused as you, I could never quite figure out one particular why ??!?

Charlie and Lucy

Always. You would ALWAYS go back with humiliation and despair waiting to topple you again and again and again via the oh so smugness of Lucy. She sucker punched you continuously, she did !! every flippin’ time !! But there you’d be, Charlie, there you’d continue …

My older eyes see what my younger could not and I thank you for your never ending, never doubting hopefulness, dear Charlie, your Oh Yes I Can, some day, one day, determined attitude. You showed me there is a bright side to every struggle and if I try, try, just keep TRYING, eventually, everything would work out fine

♥ ooooh Charlie ♥

it took me a very long while to truly understand, but I’m appreciating your lesson now more than ever before.

And um, hey all the Lucy-s out there ??!?

BRING. IT.

🙂

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