Tell Me A Story: BLUEBIRD of HAPPINESS

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

I love bluebirds.

When I was a little girl I was a member of the Sunny Blue Bird group in Liberty, Missouri.

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Blue Birds

were the junior organization

to the Camp Fire Girls.

The program was launched in 1912, but the organization goes back to 1910 when the pre-Camp Fire Girls group "Pioneer Girls of America" was started.

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The age a girl could join Blue Birds changed over the years, but the motto remained the same - Sing, Grow, Help!

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I still have my Blue Bird hat and vest, and I can still sing the song from memory.

"Worship God.

Mmm. Mmm..."

Here's a video of boys and girls singing the song:

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I love bluebirds.

My friend hand-carved a bluebird for me
from a piece of oak wood.

I named her Birdie...

         partly because, well...she is a bird,

                  and also as a namesake

                           for the character, Birdie,

in one of my favorite movies, "HOPE FLOATS."

HOPE FLOATS

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Birdie is precious to me,
and so is my friend who made her.

Birdie is a poser.

"Gonna find me a bluebird,

let him sing me a song,

‘Cause my heart’s been broken

much too long."

Marvin Rainwater

Gonna Find Me a Bluebird Lyrics, 1955

"Daddy dear,
           tell me please,
                 is the world really round?
Tell me where is
          the bluebird of happiness found?"

Little Child (Mon Enfant)
Wes Montgomery, Ralph Towner, Spike Jones

"If you like bluebirds,

there can’t be much wrong with you."

Maxine Manees

"I hope bluebirds dance in your soul."

Al Batt

"I wish you bluebirds in the spring,

To give your heart a song to sing…"

I Wish You Love, written by A. A. Beach & C. Trenet, 1946

In the thickets and the meadows

Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hiawatha, 1855

"Gone away is the bluebird..."

Richard B. Smith

1934 Lyrics of Winter Wonderland

"I'm not sure the bluebirds
       actually need us
              as much as we need them.
The next generation
                   needs something to be amazed by."

Keith Kridler at NABS 2006 Conference

I love bluebirds.

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

BLUEBIRD of HAPPINESS

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