Infantile Memories

Have you ever had anyone, a good friend

or a relative perhaps, ask you what was

the first thing you remember as a child?

Was it your mother’s smile, or perhaps

the time your father embraced and kissed

her in the kitchen as you recall? You may

have been two or three at the time. How

can you separate a dream you may have

had back then from reality? Had your

very first image in childhood been pre-

verbal more than likely, for lack of the

words to describe, you may have not

retained the image in you mind. As an

example, I recall being handed a Teddy

Bear, brown and fuzzy. And I had a cow-

boy hat I loved to wear. It was red with

a gold-braided chin strap. Had these been

memories of mine before I had the words

to describe them, I may have hugged the

hat and slept with it in bed. I could have

put the Teddy Bear on my head believing

(speechlessly of course) I was the baddest

hombre West of the Mississippi. That’s

just too silly, I must admit. However, I do

know this for certain, I was way too young

back then to have been a successful stand

up comedian. Perhaps with these weird and

twisted images of mine, being a mime seems

a far more fitting profession for me at the time.

Chris Hanch 8-28-18