Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

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We were visiting my mother several years ago and in the course of the conversation I happened to mention the scar on the back of my head. I had just gotten a haircut — I still had a full head of hair then — and mentioned that the barber nicked the scar. I’ve always had the scar and assumed it was a birth mark. Out of nowhere, my mom mentioned, “Oh, don’t you remember, that’s funny, you were little and fell off the monkey bars and the doctor worried about you having a skull fracture.”

Um, hello, say that again. Funny? Fractured skull?

Of course, my mom repeated the story, telling me that I was in kindergarten or first-grade and had reached the top portion of the monkey bars or some other type of a metal climbing apparatus, when I fell, landing hard on the ground on the back of my head. This was back in the Dark Ages when playground equipment was built with steal bars and safety was, let’s just say, an after-thought. I vaguely recall the fall and doing my best impersonation of Humpty Dumpty, the English nursery rhyme, but I can’t tell if the memory is real or if I just remember others talking about it. I get the impression that I put my parents through quite a scare.

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I write today about falls and scrapes in my post, That’s gonna leave a scar, on The Heart of The Matter. We fall, we get hurt. We get help, maybe it’s a bandage, maybe it’s something more. If we’re lucky, we heal and we move on. Sometimes though we get a permanent scar to remember the fall. I’ve come to believe that those scars teach us how to pick ourselves up and learn from our mistakes.

Check out my story and let me know what you think. What are some of the scars you’ve picked up over the years. Are they bad reminders or are you thankful for the lessons they’ve given you?

And oh yea, I’ve been writing in my series, Music On My Mind, about my appreciation for song and music. I’ll be getting back to that series starting tomorrow and have posts planned to run through Saturday.