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The washing is out on the line, it's really spring!
Once in a while, or disturbingly frequently, depending on how I look at it, I get the song "Petit papa Noël" stuck in my head for no reason, either the Nana Mouskouri version or the Raffi version, both of which were an integral part of Christmas while I was growing up. I have this memory, I must have been about 8 years old, of asking my mother what the "Dehors, tu vas avoir si froid / C'est un peu à cause de moi" lyrics meant. Her reply was a rant about the Catholic love of guilt and how as a child, she had always been told that everything was your fault and that you deserved to suffer and should always be asking forgiveness for everything.
I imagine that at the time, the real lesson I took from that was that my mother really didn't like religion (or at least the one she'd been raised in), but it stayed with me nevertheless and it makes me smile, though I can't be sure that that specific rant was in response to that specific question, because I've heard many different versions of the rant. Still, it makes perfect sense.
Once in a while, or disturbingly frequently, depending on how I look at it, I get the song "Petit papa Noël" stuck in my head for no reason, either the Nana Mouskouri version or the Raffi version, both of which were an integral part of Christmas while I was growing up. I have this memory, I must have been about 8 years old, of asking my mother what the "Dehors, tu vas avoir si froid / C'est un peu à cause de moi" lyrics meant. Her reply was a rant about the Catholic love of guilt and how as a child, she had always been told that everything was your fault and that you deserved to suffer and should always be asking forgiveness for everything.
I imagine that at the time, the real lesson I took from that was that my mother really didn't like religion (or at least the one she'd been raised in), but it stayed with me nevertheless and it makes me smile, though I can't be sure that that specific rant was in response to that specific question, because I've heard many different versions of the rant. Still, it makes perfect sense.
