You are old Aunt Sue
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You are old Aunt Sue
Birthday week poem and sketchbook pages
This week was my birthday! So to celebrate with you, my dear subscribers, here's a poem that I wrote by hand in fountain pen in one of my sketchbooks …
…and here's a video of me reading it aloud.
I did multiple messy handwritten drafts before I got it the way I wanted it… I just didn't let the messiness stop me. Here's a look at the in-progress mess.
Its not the mistakes that matter most it's how we respond, how we persist, how we fix it and what we do with it.
And yes, my poem is a parody of a poem written by Lewis Carroll in his book Alice In Wonderland. The original poem by Carroll is itself a parody of a poem by Robert Southey.
How fun is that?!
Hope you have a playful weekend!
I love this poem. And thank you for sharing your messy process. When I saw it so neatly scribed in the notebook, I thought she truly is genius to be able to write it down without so much as an errant ink blot. How heroic, though, for you to reveal the truth. LOVE IT! (BTW, one of my nephews called me Crazy Aunt Sue when he was just a child. It's taken 55 years to be upset about it.)
I loved the Father William poem when I was little. I would beg my father to read it to me so I could tease him about being old. (He was in his 30s at the time.)