Convince you to never want to go away...

Rosie Thomas - Two-Dollar Shoes

Listening to Rosie Thomas is like enjoying summer vacation as a kid: it's uncomplicated, easy-going, light, and full of possibility. There was a time in my life, and in every life I suppose, of racing my sister across the lawn, kicking up grass and dirt and sending bugs flying out of our way; of mushing up berries and crabapples and water in buckets and offering them to a grateful but cautious mother; of catching fireflies in our hands and pleading with them to light up the evening. Rosie's music is submerged in that curious, lighthearted era we all can remember, except seen through the eyes of an adult. Perhaps if we can get back there as Rosie Thomas does in her music, we can all tie our dreams to kites and dragonflies and fireflies and forget that we aren't giants anymore - that we aren't children anymore.