"I still
get wildly enthusiastic about little things...
I play with leaves. I skip down
the street and run against the wind."
― Leo Buscaglia
The other
day, a good friend of mine saw the photo that I have on my phone as wall paper
and said, "Aw, that is what you should have there ― something that makes you
smile." It is a photo of my
children on a beautiful spring day at an Easter Egg Roll. And it does make me smile ― every time I see it.
More and
more, I realize how important it is to keep things ― and people ― around us that make us smile. And sometimes, it's the smallest things. Not very long ago, one of my children took
the plastic cap from a water bottle and turned it into a happy face. She put two glitter dots on it for eyes and
drew a simple line as its smile. Then
she gave it to me. I keep the bottle cap
in a place where I see it every day and each time I see it, I smile. It reminds me of childhood innocence, of the
simple gifts that our children create, of how much my children mean to
me... Yes, a bottle cap happy face can
remind me of a child's kindness and keep me smiling.
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