9 Responses to “I Once Believed I Could Fly”

  1. kalli • July 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm #

    love this! thank you for sharing this with us Stacie!

  2. Biz • July 24, 2012 at 5:41 pm #

    Beautiful!! Love it. 😀

  3. cathy@1970kikiproject • July 25, 2012 at 6:26 am #

    what a beautiful essay, stacie. if only we could keep dreaming as adults, and stop telling ourselves that x is not possible!

  4. Ginger • July 26, 2012 at 8:00 am #

    I was reading this and thinking…hmmmm…this sounds so familar…LOVE IT!!!

    Thanks for sharing!

    🙂

  5. Katie • July 26, 2012 at 8:06 am #

    Sweet dreams, I so wanted Peter to fly in my window.

  6. Jen • July 26, 2012 at 9:06 am #

    Oh I liked this so so so … now I want to fly.

  7. Fran@ Broken Cookies Don't Count • July 27, 2012 at 5:57 am #

    This is great, Stacie! I felt like I was there with you.

  8. Kat • July 29, 2012 at 8:21 pm #

    I love how you adapted Peter Pan to this! If only we could all fly again.

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