Round Of Applause

So what would my #1 granddaughter need for 

her sixth birthday - the assurance she is what 

we already believe - gorgeous, talented - that 

liberal translation of unmitigated dreams; and 

it is easy to say praiseworthy things ‘dressed’ 

as compliments from the shelf of urbanity yet 

in her unabashed frankness she is the first to 
rephrase these things inimitably her own way

That refreshing freedom of an energised and 

unrelenting innocence questing to be itself, a

power of one repeatedly saying look at me is 

one huge debt to denials of convenience and 

won’t pay the rent of her conscience; so let’s 

have a round of applause for Freya Jean … 

© 20 October 2014, I. D. Carswell