The kid within.
Just finished reading "Charlie and the Chocolate factory." I'd heard so much about the book as a kid in secondary school, but I'd never gotten round to reading it.
It was lovely reading it and taking a trip back into childhood again. Then again, I don't think I've ever really left childhood. I'm not sure any of us have. I mean, I think there is a kid in all of us. I think that's the beauty of it, to be able to still be in touch with that kid within, yet learn from the years of living as each year goes by.
I only just discovered Shel Silverstein a couple of years ago. He is the amazing author who wrote "The Giving Tree". This story is short, the moral is touching and the result left me teary eyed and yearning to read more from the author. So I bought "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and laughed my way through it :)'
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I worked as a music teacher at a piano school and taught piano classes to kids. I was known as "Miss Corrinne" and had a couple of group classes to teach. the kids were all very young and my youngest class consisted of kids who were 2 and a half years old.
They would come in with their parents, sit at the little keyboards and Miss Corrinne would be moving them around every couple of minutes to keep their attention, 5 minutes at the keyboard, 5 minutes at the blackboard drawing out notes, five minutes dancing to a song, another five minutes telling a story. It was exhausting and fun at the same time, and it got me to know more about kids.
Kids at that age have an innate curiousity about the world around them. "Miss Corrinne, why did the wolf try to eat the pigs?" And they are not shy about expressing their feelings, or about trying something new. Well, some kids are more shy than others, but it seems to me that, the older we get, the more fearful we become of the world around us. Kids don't care that they will fall, they just get up and start stumbling around, trying to find their pacing, trying to walk and if they fall, they get up and start over.
Sometimes, I wonder where that gutsy little toddler in me went :)
I'd like to believe that we all still have the ability to be fearless.
We just need to be reminded once in a while :)
It was lovely reading it and taking a trip back into childhood again. Then again, I don't think I've ever really left childhood. I'm not sure any of us have. I mean, I think there is a kid in all of us. I think that's the beauty of it, to be able to still be in touch with that kid within, yet learn from the years of living as each year goes by.
I only just discovered Shel Silverstein a couple of years ago. He is the amazing author who wrote "The Giving Tree". This story is short, the moral is touching and the result left me teary eyed and yearning to read more from the author. So I bought "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and laughed my way through it :)'
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I worked as a music teacher at a piano school and taught piano classes to kids. I was known as "Miss Corrinne" and had a couple of group classes to teach. the kids were all very young and my youngest class consisted of kids who were 2 and a half years old.
They would come in with their parents, sit at the little keyboards and Miss Corrinne would be moving them around every couple of minutes to keep their attention, 5 minutes at the keyboard, 5 minutes at the blackboard drawing out notes, five minutes dancing to a song, another five minutes telling a story. It was exhausting and fun at the same time, and it got me to know more about kids.
Kids at that age have an innate curiousity about the world around them. "Miss Corrinne, why did the wolf try to eat the pigs?" And they are not shy about expressing their feelings, or about trying something new. Well, some kids are more shy than others, but it seems to me that, the older we get, the more fearful we become of the world around us. Kids don't care that they will fall, they just get up and start stumbling around, trying to find their pacing, trying to walk and if they fall, they get up and start over.
Sometimes, I wonder where that gutsy little toddler in me went :)
I'd like to believe that we all still have the ability to be fearless.
We just need to be reminded once in a while :)
posted by Corrinne May | 12:35 AM
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Yup, each one of us has a kid within, to responding to our Father's love. Guess that would never change, forever in His loving arm.
Super Favored, you!
I guess that's what God meant when He said, "Let the Children come to me"... Somehow, as we grow up, we lose the ability to believe innocently and whole-heartedly, without any doubts.
I pray that we can be like children in these aspects... makes for a lot less heartbreaks when God has to deal with us...
We still do, deb, we still do. As a kid, laugh in front Him, cry in front Him, make mistakes, fall down and pick up by His big hands again. Sometimes unreasonable, sometimes throwing tantrum, nevertheless, He still loves us, unconditionaly.
All His goodness to me was countless and was apart from my performance.
No matter how old we are in our natural age, to Him, our Father, we are forever His lovely kids in His family.
heys corrinne.
i really like ur songs.
the lyrics are so meaningful!
a great encouragement too!
really looking forward to hear more of ur songs soon!
Hi Corrinne
Kids have no fears...as they always not afraid to fall to fly unless like us adults...especially so for us, Singapore...where 'face value' is very important....
Anyhow, looking forward for your concert in Singapore.
PS: Just introduce your music to my friend, Linda. She absolutely love 'Journey'....
God Bless
yes, lets all have childlike Faith in God! :>
i bought tics with my friends to your concert at the Esplanade on 10 Aug, but i cant go now cos of a meeting with my spiritual daddy.
Yes dear corrinne sis, would u perform moooorrrreeeeeeee? :>
Hey Corrine,
I'm a music teacher in a local government school, and i've recently done a series of lessons on local singer-songwriters. You were one of the featured artistes :)
Kids these days are more into rock and pop,so i thought it'd be a refreshing change to introduce your brand of music. I did a lesson on music as a form of narration with the song "Fly Away" and made the kids draw a story board inspired from the lyrics of that song...
Well here are their works...
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1549/pict00010mi.jpg
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/9793/pict00020lk.jpg
I really hope that teachers can do their part in exposing students to music from the local arena, because of worthy talent like you it'll be a waste not to inspire our youths.
Love your songs, and keep them coming. God Bless you...
That is so true. I think it the pride of man that makes us fearful. Fear of falling and looking foolish.
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