Hello everyone! I hope all is well with you! I’m taking my kids to the zoo today, so I thought I’d reblog a guest post that I hosted last year. The author is JQ Rose and she has some awesome advice for Teens! Without further ado, take it away JQ!
Hello Readers.
Lisa, thank you so much for hosting me on your blog today.
Are you familiar with the song, “Little Boxes” written in 1963 by Melvina Reynolds?
~If you want to use the youtube video here’s the link~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4Xs
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same,
There’s a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
Lyrics from http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/malvina_reynolds/little_boxes.html
Listeners to the catchy tune and lyrics have several ideas for its meaning. One of them is the protest against all the cheap housing of suburbia which sprang up in the 60’s. People called the sub-divisions a cookie-cutter method of building homes with ticky tacky or shoddy materials.
The message I receive from the lyrics…
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Good share as I missed the original post! Have fun at the zoo, Lisa 🙂
Thanks Christy! 🙂