Ten Feet Tall

henry county, indiana

Ten Feet Tall
Happy I’m floating
Around on my feet now
You make me go dizzy
I’m weak at the knees
I feel like I’m walking
Round ten feet tall
Well you say I’m faking
And I say don’t worry
The way that I bubble
There’s something in the make
I feel like I’m walking
Round ten feet tall
Right, the chemistry is right
This boy has reached his height
The feeling just goes on and on…
From strength to strength
I’m ten feet long…
I feel like I’m walking
Round ten feet tall  — xtc

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both of my parents grew up during the great depression. i think it was harder for my fathers family; my mothers family owned their home and her father farmed and also worked in coal mines (southern illinois).

 i’m not quite sure of all of the details, but dad’s family lost everything and moved from storm lake, iowa to illinois and then  moved from farm to farm. i remember my mother saying that they (meaning my fathers family) had to move when the rent came due. i remeber one of my aunts telling me that they didn’t even have proper plates or cups and drank out of old tin cans. my father never told me any of these stories, he never had any complaints about his childhood. instead, my dad would tell me stories about how he used to play cowboys and indians on ‘prince’, a horse his family owned. he also used to tell me about how he and his brothers used to go hunting, mostly for rabbit and how his brother ‘doc’ used to be able to catch them with his bare hands.

i think it’s is from these early influnces (and also from later ones that i sought out myself) that i have chosen to live simply.

peace!