Honoring Father Time this Father’s Day

Bohemian Babushka Posted: June 5, 2020


Last month for Dia de Las Madres in May, Babushka shared our mutual Madre, Mother Earth.  Seems only fitting that for June, we should speak about our mutual Padre, Father Time.  There are many fotos del Father Time, and BB will be sharing them at the end, pero considering how 2020 is playing out, this is perfecto.  Fijate que el baby, the New Year, is in a bubble… aja, like nosotros (or how debemos estar, en quarantine) , with our eyes closed. No idea how to guard ourselves against this pandemic, but still open arms to what the year brings.  This is an illustration for a game that como la vida, has Father Time just throwing us out there. Now, before you think that is said sarcastically, isn’t that what a good padre is supposed to do? To guide and guardar us for the futuro, giving his most and best, then letting us go into el mundo armed with the armor of his amor and best intentions. Symbol of Accion, he showed us the ways of the world, the possibilities e inevitabilities of growing up and growing older.

And like Father Time, our fathers age before our eyes. Nuestros viejos, always a part of us, always their lessons guiding us, even when we become Father Time.

Our viejos, Mother Earth and Father Time.

How very special are we

For just a moment to be

Part of life’s eternal rhyme

How very special are we

To have on our family tree

Mother Earth and Father Time

He turns the seasons around

And so he changes her gown

But they always look in their prime

They go on dancing their dance

Of everlasting romance

Mother Earth and Father Time

The summer larks return the scene

Oh, what a gift they give!

Then autumn days grow short and cold

Oh, what a joy to live!

How very special are we

For just a moment to be

Part of life’s eternal rhyme

How very special are we

To have on our family tree

Mother Earth and Father Time

Mother Earth and Father Time- song by Richard and Robert Sherman




With mucho amor to all parents and guiding figures in our vidas-

And to starting 2020 over con hindsight and foresight.

Babushka Besos a Todos. Cuidensen.

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