The Wild Places of Youth
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
From: Deborah Begel
Length: 00:03:50
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The young know that youth is a wild place, full of dragons, zebras, lobsters, clams, even alligators. Today on Calling America, a swim through the waters of childhood.
He is Six By Leone Scanlon
Read by Annise Ventura
In Plain Sight
By Lucille Gang Shulklapper
Read by Nicolas Etter
Pictures of My Youth
By Jan Kwiatkowsky
Read by Jan Kwiatkowsky
Music: Banjo by Marshall Chapman
The boy who draws zebras
lives in a blue house
with ghosts in the attic and monsters below.
--He is Six by Leone Scanlon
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The young know that youth is a wild place, full of dragons, zebras, lobsters, clams, even alligators. Today on Calling America, a swim through the waters of childhood.
He is Six By Leone Scanlon
Read by Annise Ventura
In Plain Sight
By Lucille Gang Shulklapper
Read by Nicolas Etter
Pictures of My Youth
By Jan Kwiatkowsky
Read by Jan Kwiatkowsky
Music: Banjo by Marshall Chapman
The boy who draws zebras
lives in a blue house
with ghosts in the attic and monsters below.
--He is Six by Leone Scanlon
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In cue: An Arab dreamer and I dreamed the same dream...
Out cue: Thanks for listening.
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Paul Quamahongnewa
Posted on November 29, 2008 at 08:07 PM | Permalink
Do you remember when you were a child?
Imagination, is a great tool and also, remembering what you've done when you were a small child. Your mind is filled with unimaginable thoughts and dreams. We can all remember when we were children and we still act like one at times. We can all remember the events we experienced when we were little. Remember, we are children, we still have our childish dreams and thoughts.