flannel man (old)
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Once upon a time there was a real nice guy.
His name was Flannel Man.
Everywhere he went he made people feel comfortable.
He was just plain easy, that Flannel Man….soft and strong and easy.
Everythin’ bout him made you want to be near him.
He just rolled along from thing to thing bein’ helpful and kind and VERY VERY strong.
Some folks noticed he was different….outsiders mostly.
They’d drive through town and be mean.
But Flannel Man, he’d just smile and wave.
We fi gured he didn’t really hear them cuz’ his ears was so small.
Actually his whole head was small….VERY VERY small.
He’d say stuff like “Pay them no mind. It’s just noise” and then go about fi xin’ and makin’ things.
That Flannel Man sure loved to work!
One Fall day I asked him how his head got SO small and this is what he said:
“After years and years of just concentratin’ on what’s in front of me, focusin’ real good…..my head shrunk.
Turns out I didn’t need a big head any more. Keep it simple and do the next right thing and before ya know it….BIG things get small.”
Then he smiled….He smiled a lot.
The Mayor called the Governor and the Governor called the President and the President said he’d pray for us. We sure needed it.
We could have used some money too but he said he had faith we could do it on our own cuz’ we were Americans.
Every day people had meetins’. They argued bout’ “Why?” and “How Come?” and “When’s it gonna get better?”
The reason I remember it real well is cuz’ all 243 of us had to stay in the school gym for 7 whole days. Roads closed…electric gone….it was BAD.
Me and my friends got tired of listnin’ to the big folks so we asked Flannel Man if we could help. He said “Yep”. He said yep a lot.
Pretty soon all us kids were busy doin’ and fi xin’. We were noisy too….noisy, busy and happy.
On the last day Flannel Man woke us up…..all of us at once…with his fi ddle! He didn’t like to yell.
He said the snow stopped snowin’ and the sun was out.
He told us to pack up, clean up and go home.
For further informationcall Galen Blum
at 505-466-3108 or e-mail galenblum@yahoo.com
2009 by Galen Blum
Illustrations 2009 Lisa Flynn© ©
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