empty mirror
remember the jackalope
^Six six sixties...
... and to realize that they're not carbon genetic copies of you, who will fulfill every dream of yours that you couldn't, but that they're actually people with like their own thoughts and feelings and personalities. That's hard for some people.
enantiodromia.
i just picked up a woody guthrie cd of kids songs
apparently he wrote them for his little girl
she died in a fire a few years later (at four years old)
of course her death did not inform the songs he "wrote"* but it somehow retroactively gives the songs an almost plaintive air (that doesn't quite ring true, not really the right word, the songs are undeniably jubilant)
🤷
babble babble blah blah
there's another folkways childrens songs cd out there... i think there is a childrens music thread i should be posting this again (see "🤷" above)
* i am using quotes here because they feel like spontaneous, one take ditties, not something that he penned first, honed, rehearsed and did endless takes until he got it just so... indeed he mispeaks (mis-sings) a few times but i guess found no reason to go back and redo the song(s). really charming stuff.