I often have these moments. I am nostalgic about my childhood. Perhaps it is because I am a Taurus. My parents have often looked strangely at me when I say how much I loved my childhood and I can see in their eyes how they are going over all the things they think they did wrong as parents. Still, I maintain that my childhood was fabulous. I mean, I grew up in the 80's, best decade to be under the age of 12 EVER!!
I often have memories pop into my head from childhood that immediately send me looking for something to maintain the nostalgic feeling. I rewatch that movie or I'll make that dish. Sometimes however, I can not find what I am looking for. Like that amazing cartoon version of The Seven Swans that I watched over and over and over again the Christmas I was four and I drank 2 liters of eggnog in half an hour and spent the rest of the day curled in the big chair puking my guts out and watching that movie. Or eating that $5 jungle peanut butter cup raw food goodie that tasted SO much like the chocolate I used to eat at home as a kid and that I can not for the life of me replicate.
One of these elusive memories is a poster that I had on my wall as a child. I have thought about this poster probably once or twice a year since I was 12. I LOVED that poster. I have no idea what happened to it, I was too young to really care about where my stuff ended up when we moved. I have often gone looking for it, in poster stores, on-line. All I remember was how much time I spent starting at it. You see it is a picture of a unicorn standing by a small stream in the forest. At the unicorns feet is a snake. They appear to be in conversation and I spent many hours telling myself stories about what they were saying to each other.
For no reason at all today I thought about that poster again. I went looking. And this is what I found.
Yippeee!! I will be ordering this poster soon.I guess childhood memories do come true...
BTW~ If anyone knows of the version of The Seven Swans movie that I mentioned please let me know!! It was produced between 1978-1985, it was animated, it may have had a title that was a variation on this story (The Swan Brothers, 7/11/12 Swans, etc), and it had these awesomely horrid scenes of the sister picking nettles and getting blisters and being tortured with needles during her trial (these scenes stand out for me because no other "kids" version I have ever seen portrayed these aspects of the original story)
