The Tin Girl (Kansas: Part 7)
Here’s why I’m afraid. When we got engaged, my
mother-in-law told hubby he could do better than me.
Outwardly nice, she chopped off my limbs one by one.
Each time she did that, I replaced them with another made of tin.
I have a tin heart. I am The Tin Girl around her.
The Tin Woodman of Oz (Wikipedia)
Tin Man: My… mmm-my, my, my, my goodness. I can talk again!
Dorothy: Well, you’re perfect now.
Tin Man: Perfect? Oh, bang on my chest if you think I’m perfect.
Go ahead, bang on it! It’s empty. The tinsmith forgot to give me a heart. All hollow.
Script from the movie, The Wizard of Oz
“I’d be tender, I’d be gentle
and awful sentimental
regarding Love and Art.
I’d be friends with the sparrows
and the boy who shoots the arrows
if I only had a heart.”
Lyric from the movie, The Wizard of Oz
Today we’re coming home from Kansas!!! Real-time
Encore Seraphine updates begin again this weekend! HUGS!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Your mother in law is an idiot. Your hubby is brilliant. Is that too frank?
June 20th, 2008 at 8:11 am
dear heart,
click your heels and head for home. gary’s correct.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Home is where the heart is, in your case not in the Kansas Rectangle. Welcome home.
June 21st, 2008 at 3:37 am
Ouch…you have “one of those mother-in-laws”. Just from reading your comics and the comments you leave on my blog, I’d say you’re a very intellectual person with a great personality.
Don’t let one person bring you down.
Here, I found your limbs and I’m reattaching them back on you.
June 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
You must be happy and relieved for coming back home. And mother-in-laws, what to say… ew:-S Yours sounds like a real pain in the ass (excuse the expression). Hugs.
June 21st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
“i’ll be a friend of the sparrows..”, love that line, a poem awaits, for sure.
June 21st, 2008 at 4:02 pm
The more you think about, speak about the dreaded mom-in-law, the more power you give to her
and her energy.
June 21st, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Your mother is law seems to be quite a character. Would she look like the witch in Cinderalla? Snow White?
Hope she doesn’t browse blogs anyway
Otherwise, she might cut some more arms!
June 21st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
At least the heel-clicking thing worked, right?
June 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
A. Decker. I’m home. After a 5 hour wait in Denver!
Cynthia. I like that, about not giving her the power. Because it’s true.
Gary. She isn’t an idiot. But she *is* opinionated.
Ras. I brought more good memories home than bad.
Romeika. I’m sooo happy to be home, I thought about kissing the ground in San Francisco.
Secret Agent. Thank you!
Susan. click click click click
Zhu. Ohhh I hope she doesn’t read blogs. She doesn’t seem the type.
June 23rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
whooo Sera, so glad you’re back. There’s something not totally bad about tin hearts.
They don’t bleed.
Tell your “momma-in-law”
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Oh! I love this one! You are amazing!
I’m glad you are back!