thoughts today
sometimes i just randomly think of something and decide to look up about it on the internet. today for some reason i started thinking about a story that i was read when i was little, the lord of the rushy river. it was about a little girl who lived with a wicked woman because her father was away at sea. the woman took the money her father had given her and spent it on herself, leaving the girl hungry, and in rags. one day the girl went down to the river and met a group of swans. the swans took care of her and she left the wicked woman. eventually the girls father returned from sea, and they were reunited. the wicked woman was punished but eventually forgiven when she humbly begged to be their lawful servant.
i think i used to love this story so much as a child because i loved the idea of being raised by swans. i passionately loved all animals and thought it would be incredible to be raised by such magnificantl and elegant creatures.
there is nothing that turns up on an internet search for the story! it was an old book that my grandmother used to have, so i presume it was quite an antique. i assume it is by an english writer. strange that i can't track it down. i though amazon had everything these days.
this morning i was woken by my alarm, from the middle of quite an intense dream. i was definitely not finished with it and therefore the feeling of it is still quite strong in my head. in the dream i was back in thailand again. but i was with different people - i think i was with my friends lindsay, kate and kat (big surprise there). it was rainy season, and so we couldn't go outside. at one point we were thinking to swim, so i looked out the window to see if the sky had cleared at all. i looked toward the ocean and saw waves - big ones... the scene i saw and the image of the ocean was exactly the same as the image of have in my head, the one that has imprinted itself in my memory almost a year ago today. in the dream, however...the water caught up with us and suddenly i was submerged. in front of me was a little boy and he went under. i put my head under water and saw that i could see clearly, almost as if i were in a swimming pool. i looked frantically for the boy and saw that he had dived down, and was swimming toward the bottom. he finally came back up and said that he was trying to save his puppy. that he had also been in the tsunami last year and that his puppy had drowned then. he didn't want it to happen again. suddenly i was standing on land and the little boy was in my arms, and he was sobbing. he didn't have his puppy.
i think i used to love this story so much as a child because i loved the idea of being raised by swans. i passionately loved all animals and thought it would be incredible to be raised by such magnificantl and elegant creatures.
there is nothing that turns up on an internet search for the story! it was an old book that my grandmother used to have, so i presume it was quite an antique. i assume it is by an english writer. strange that i can't track it down. i though amazon had everything these days.
this morning i was woken by my alarm, from the middle of quite an intense dream. i was definitely not finished with it and therefore the feeling of it is still quite strong in my head. in the dream i was back in thailand again. but i was with different people - i think i was with my friends lindsay, kate and kat (big surprise there). it was rainy season, and so we couldn't go outside. at one point we were thinking to swim, so i looked out the window to see if the sky had cleared at all. i looked toward the ocean and saw waves - big ones... the scene i saw and the image of the ocean was exactly the same as the image of have in my head, the one that has imprinted itself in my memory almost a year ago today. in the dream, however...the water caught up with us and suddenly i was submerged. in front of me was a little boy and he went under. i put my head under water and saw that i could see clearly, almost as if i were in a swimming pool. i looked frantically for the boy and saw that he had dived down, and was swimming toward the bottom. he finally came back up and said that he was trying to save his puppy. that he had also been in the tsunami last year and that his puppy had drowned then. he didn't want it to happen again. suddenly i was standing on land and the little boy was in my arms, and he was sobbing. he didn't have his puppy.
posted by Justine at 11:15 p.m.
4 Comments:
the only thing i found: "Lord of the Rushy River. This is a beautiful little book, but the girl is the young daughter of the sailor, not girlfriend. The yellow dress is wonderful. The Lord of the Rushy River is a swan that she and her father used to feed by a river before he leaves. The swan rescues her from the town where she has been taken, and carries her back to the river where she wears the dress, now much too small, and meets her father. One of those books that is happy, but makes you want to cry."
the book was written by Cicely Mary Barker who also wrote and illustrated "The Book of the Flower Fairies". I'm sure it's out of print now.
is that you mum?
yup, who else would know
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