Three Little Birds

Sometimes it's really difficult for me to remember my childhood, but even more so, the past four years. It's just amazing to remember anything from my time as a child. It puts you in a place of peace and simplicity that we all need from time to time.

I was listening to "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley and I had the best memories come back to me about when I was younger and going to Ohio to visit my grandparents. I wish I could say that my grandparents were "cool" enough to listen to Bob Marley, but they were into Frank, Judy, Ella, and Louie from the AM radio. 

Smells are said to be the strongest things to remind us of any memory, at least that's what I've always heard, but for me, I'd have to say a song is right up there with a smell.

 

My grandparents were so flippin great. They had this cute itty bitty house(they had it for 50 years or something crazy) with a garden they ate from, the smell of chocolate chip cookies and if I was lucky some Klondike bars. I was a sneaky kid about eating sweets. Whenever they would go to bed, I would run to the cookie jar and grab a couple cookies, because a couple from earlier simply was not enough. 

Their driveway was gravel and it wound around to their backporch which was always covered in bird seed. They loved seeing all the birds come up to their little porch. They also loved waving everyone off. I have a memory of my grandma waving us goodbye, the last time she was well that I'll cherish forever.

The lyrics are, "rise up this mornin', smiled with the risin' sun, three little birds pitch by my doorstep, singin sweet songs, of melodies pure and true, saying, don't worry bout a thing, cause every little thing gonna be all right"

How perfect is that? They lived every morning for those birds. I love remembering them. I lost my grandmother when I was 10 and my grandfather at 14, but so much of their love and simplicity remains in me. 

Like the song sings, "of  melodies pure and true", everything about grandpa and grandma was that and so are the birds that remind us that there is an abundance of melodies awaiting us everyday.