Johnny Appleseed.

I have had Johnny Appleseed stuck in my head all. day. long.

Of Cake and Men

"He always does this. It's what he always does."

"He just wants to have his cake and eat it too."

"EXACTLY! He wants to have his cake and eat it too!"

"MEN."

U STINK!

During the closing prayer at my FHE group tonight, a boy in my group scribbled the words "U STINK!" on a piece of paper and when the girl next to me opened her eyes after saying "Amen" the phrase written before loomed right before her eyes and she LAUGHED. It was irreverent and surprisingly funny. And I doubt it has never happened before.

Boys start telling girls mean things from the time they are little. 

Usually when they like them.

And FHE? That has Mormon tradition and folklore stamped all over it.

Any Song Can Be a Folk Song for Someone

"And I'm not going back into rags or in the hole and our bruises are comin but we will never fold. And I was your silver lining as the story goes. I was your silver lining but now I'm gold. Hooray, hooray but now I'm gold. And I was your silver lining high up on my toes but you were running through fields of hitch hikers, as the story goes. Hooray, Hooray, I'm your silver lining. But now I'm gold. And the grass it was a-tickin and the sun was on the rise. I never felt so wicked as when I willed our love to die and I was your silver lining as the story goes. I was your silver lining but now I'm gold." -Rilo Kiley. Silver Lining.

[She Broke FREE. Just like me.]

Lyrics & Indians

Some gal would giggle

And I'd get red

And some guy'd laugh

And I'd bust his head

I tell ya: Life ain't easy for a boy named Sue

Well I grew up quick and I grew up mean

My fist got hard and my whits got keen

Roamed from town to town to hide my shame

But I made me a vow to the moon and stars...

-Johnny Cash.

Friday (yesterday) we learned about the historical aspects of folklore. 

My take on it: History is in everything. 

This reading intertwines with Dundes.

No matter how far about some people want to pull them apart.

There is history to everything. Even a song.

[For the ones that write it and the ones that say it and the ones that hear it.]