I thought I had simply dreamed it up, but I managed to scramble around and find a grainy copy of something I remembered from childhood.

It’s a Sesame Street Christmas special.

The footage is a little grainy.  I can’t believe someone had it to upload to YouTube, frankly.

But there amidst the Ethel Merman "Tomorrow" extravaganza, and a kooky Oscar the Grouch trash can dream?

A young, cheery Michael Jackson.

Seemed appropriate for today somehow.

Funny how little snippets from your childhood just flood back, isn’t it? This seems like such a sweet, melancholy moment right in the middle there. No idea why I remembered seeing this, but I did.

For all the lost childhood dreams, I suppose…