Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh......

Christopher Robin and I walked along
under branches lit up by the moon.
Posing our questions to Owl and Eeyore
as our days disappeared all too soon.
But I've wandered much further today than I should
and I can't seem to find my way back to the 3-Aker Woods.

So, help me if you can I've got to get
back to the house at Pooh Corner by one.
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done:
count all the bees in the hive,
chase all the clouds from the sky.
Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh.

Winnie the Pooh doesn't know what to do,
got a honey jar stuck on his nose.
He came to me asking help and advice
and from here no one knows where he goes.
So I sent him to ask of the Owl if he's there,
how to loosen a jar from the nose of a bear

So, help me if you can I've got to get
back to the house at Pooh Corner by one
You'd be surprised there's so much to be done:
count all the bees in the hive,
chase all the clouds from the sky.

Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh,
back to the days of Christopher Robin,
back to the ways of Pooh

This song was popular when I was about a sophomore at The Mount. Not sure why it popped into my head when I pulled up this picture from last Alumnae Sunday, but it seems to fit. We had a planning committee meeting today and it got me excited about being back at the Mount in about a month's time! It's been a long winter -- too much illness, too much snow, too much cold, too much stress -- literally and figuratively. It makes my heart smile to know I can be back at the Mount soon -- to take in the peacefulness, the quiet -- to find some rest among friends and memories. Home.

I was thinking about how some people always return to the Mount, and others never do. And that's why that song popped in my head. I think some people do not have good memories from their days there and they have no desire to return (to the 3-Aker Woods). Some have good memories, but life carried them away in many other directions and the memory is just left behind. Scheduling conflicts, family needs, distance -- lots of good reasons it can't happen that they find their way back to the 3-Aker Woods.

Then there's those of us who felt the pull to go back -- and wanted to get back to the 3-Aker Woods, the house at Pooh Corner..... (Home). So much to be done -- count all the bees in the hives, chase all the clouds from the sky -- walk around campus, breathe deeply, see old friends, reconnect to our roots.............yes, reconnect to our roots from those many years ago, roots that made us strong and set us on our way.

For me, it's a comfort to go back to the Days of Christopher Robin and Pooh, to the Holy Ground, to stand on the shoulders of the ones who went before us.......back to roots so our wings can soar......oh, the song list just goes on and on!!

:)

And the interesting thing about that photo at the top is that some of us had not seen each other in 37 years when we came together last year. We had finally got back to the House at Pooh Corner by 1! Back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh........!