… is not an easy thing to keep. Today I went to my old kindergarten. I haven’t been there in the last 22 years. I don’t know what I expected to find. Maybe I thought old memories would flash through my head. What I found was the old building which is still standing. I remember in the basement was a room for sports and outside there was a swimming pool. It isn’t there anymore. Probably to protect the kids from drowning. When I was a child, we all knew we were not allowed to go near this pool. We knew we could die or at least get into really big trouble if we violated the rules. So we didn’t go there. Is it different today? Don’t children learn to do what they have been told anymore? When I go outside and see some parents with their kids, that thought crosses my mind.

Later, I went to a lake near the kindergarten. I remember a day in winter, we went there to burn a big doll made of straw, or corn (something like a scarecrow?). It was to ‘say goodbye to the winter’. Now I know it must have been at the beginning of February. It’s the festival called Imbolc (or later, when Christianity took over, St. Brigid’s Day). So this was my first pagan festival. I wish I had the chance to learn more about this earlier in my life.

Anyway, I took some pictures, but they just didn’t feel right to me. Actually, they made me yawn ;)  So no photo of my little trip to the past today.

When I got home I found the book I ordered in the mail, so now I’ll take some time to start reading!  :)

Day 14 - Shush I'm reading! ;)

Day 14 - Shush I'm reading!