mamabear

📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Member since October 2005

My icon is that of a polar bear cub, Hudson, and his mom, Arki, at Brookfield Zoo, Illinois. He was born December 16, 2006 and is cuter than cute!

As for me, I was born 2 months premature... oh wait, you probably don't want me to go back that far. Love music - all types, choir, bears (especially polar) puppy dogs, cooking, reading, word games, Literati, Sudoku, sewing & crafts, traveling and my 3 children (not necessarily in that order). Have to work, but wish I could resign so there's more time to BABBLE!

Favorite pasttimes - daydreaming and nitedreaming.... thus the following poem:

To Dream

To dream ... a phenomenon of the mind...
A divinely given gift from heaven - that which cannot be planned by man or manipulated in any way by human cause.
A means whereby there is escape - to enter, to explore, to experience, to see through the eyelids what the eye in daylight cannot.

To fly, to soar above the clouds.
To free fall to the earth, never touching the ground.
To float naked atop the ocean's waves, absorbing the sun's rays and all its warmth to the very soul.
To walk barefoot on an unending beach of powdery sand, the only sound being the call of the seagull or gently rolling surf.
To enjoy a lasting embrace, a kiss that makes all existing nonexistent.
To sing and to dance on a stage surrounded by a field of musicians in perfect tune to a song with infinite chorus.
To climb up a rainbow and touch the sky, sliding gracefully down to where the color begins.

To awaken refreshed, with the memory of experiences only allowed in the mind of the dreamer.
To cling to the hope only afforded in slumber.

To reflect through daylight and daydream what was enjoyed in the night, until the time once again when darkness returns, and we pray for the peace, the happiness, the escape that only sleep provides.

And we willingly fall to the place all our own.... to sleep... with hope ... to dream.

bh
10/14/03
can be reached at mamabear3cubs at yahoo.com

My pirate name is Captain Bess Rackham