Tiny Dancer

Looking on…she sings the songs…
The words she knows, the tune she hums…(Tiny Dancer-Elton John)

So, it’s that time of the season, again….it’s back to school time!! Back to school time always holds nostalgia for this market manager. I remember the thrill of the shopping for back to school clothing…for me, it was the 70s/early 80s, and I was all about the bell bottoms, rainbow prints, feathered hair, and heavy lip gloss.

From the first day of Kindergarten, to the first day of senior year in high school, I can totally remember each back to school outfit, each painful first day photo (some years were golden, other years were….what was I thinking??) I remember school bus rides, assigned seats, lunch boxes, book bags, boy crushes, fading summer tans, and friends…friends were everything. Friends were the end all be all of your existence.

I remember when I was old enough to grab rides to school with the West End boys, we would pile into cars, crank up the tunes, sing, talk, laugh, and speed off to school. I was usually the only girl because my neighborhood was all boys. I didn’t see it as a hardship but I did see it as a foundation for all that I share with guy pals, now. When I was with my guy pals, the world made sense, there was no girl drama, and I always felt like I held a special girl place in a guy world.

On our drives to school, we cranked the classic tunes. I remember one fall morning, riding to school, Tiny Dancer blaring, and my guy friends all giving me that nickname.

Those close friendships, close bonds, we all still share them, today. We may not be in the West End, any longer, but that was our local hangout, back then, and it built our paths for the rest of our lives.

It’s important to build those local paths with friends. It is important to know how important your local ties are. Just like in this little market where we strive to build local bonds, daily and weekly, it’s important to know that you have those ties to lean on.

I open the market, tonight, to a new school year, and to local ties….I also open this market to you, the stressed out, micro managed parents. Let us worry about your weekly shopping while you worry about open houses, meet the teachers, sports, dance classes, meetings, supply shopping…you have so much to worry about so why not let us be your local friends. The friends you can count on to get the shopping done.

Enjoy your back to school week…enjoy your memories of your back to school all those years ago. Go, be the tiny dancer while we make your shopping week easier…

Order, be local, love local…let us give you the local that you love…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam
(aka Tiny Dancer)