Did you ever feel like you wanted to be a kid again? I don’t just mean not having the different burdens in adulthood, like work related problems, friendship related problems, money related problems, health related problems. I just mean when you were really little and life was about dressing up or arts and crafts, or
talking to your dolls and stuffed animals and they were your best friend. Or having an imaginary friend.

Today there was loss. Loss of someone I knew since I was very young. Someone who was a very smart women who had a lot of things to say about a lot of different topics. Someone who will be missed by many people.

And after getting this call from my mom, I drove home from work. And on the way home I was listening to vynl 95.3 and they have a spot called Gord’s Gold I think it is….and tonight they played Peter, Paul and Mary. It made me cry….well, because this song always brings a tear to my eye. But tonight, it made me wish that I was like Jackie Paper, and that life was what it was, with your friend Puff the Magic Dragon.

“Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea

And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee

Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff,
and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Oh

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff’s gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes would bow whene’er they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name. Oh

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee


A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more
And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, Puff could not be brave,
So Puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave.
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee”