PUT IT DOWN!

"Put it down" is usually spoken with a little authority. These three words just sort of transport me back to a time when my children were young and still at home. I remember one time telling my two year old son to "put it down" when he picked up a cassette tape of mine. He did, but there was still a spark of curiousity going on in his head. Because the next morning when we got him up, fed him and his sister, and we were then getting ready for the day, he remembered those interesting cassettes. So after showering, getting ready for church. I walked out into the livingroom to get something, and there was Timmy amid not just one, but all of my cassettes. (alas, Cds had not made their arrival.) He had taken each cassette out of the case and pulled out all the tape rendering them useless. This is a habit that he has retained until this day.



He still dismantles things. Fortunately for him he also has learned to put things back together. And the things that he disassembles and reassembles are B1 Bomber engines. He is a SSgt in the USAF stationed at Dyess AFB in Abilene TX.So these days when I hear the words "put it down" it is generally in the context of a little voice inside my head that is telling me to take thoughts, ramblings and put them on paper, or a little file stored away on my computer. This will then be my initial post of the "Put It Down" writings.And I would encourage you to do the same. I find that when I go to some of my earlier writings from years or even months earlier, that I have forgotten those things, and they then become a breathe of fresh aire.