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Good morning. The original film Dumbo was first released on this day in 1941 in the United States. My mother saw it and loved it when it was released here, in the midst of the second world war, and I saw it with her and loved it when it was re-released in cinemas in the early 1970s. The film Dumbo was a shared childhood memory for us, a generation apart. So was a passion for Elinor M Brent-Dyer鈥檚 Chalet School books, which we both read in our early teens. But much as my mother and I had adored those books, I couldn鈥檛 persuade my own daughter to love them as her grandmother and I had- even though I had kept my copies, hoping to pass them on, which my own mother had inexplicably failed to do.听

Connections between generations may be made in surprising ways, and not always in the ways we hope for or anticipate. Celebrating difference while developing connection is one of the joys of cross-generational interaction, whether based on family ties or other contexts: with neighbours, friends, or at work. Seeing something well-loved and familiar through another鈥檚 eyes is enriching for both. The mother鈥檚 trunk cradling the baby Dumbo through the bars of her prison truck, the song Baby Mine, I now see and hear afresh through my mother鈥檚 and my daughter鈥檚 perspectives. Creative expression of all kinds offers a space for such intergenerational meeting and growing.听

Living God, thank you for creative spaces which speak to those of all ages, sparking reactions to be shared, remembered and treasured. Amen

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