The Kindness of Sharing Laughter

"All you need in the world is love and laughter.  That's all anybody needs.  To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."
~ August Wilson

Laughter is truly the best medicine.  I was thinking about that after I hung up with one of my dearest friends.  I had been discussing a work issue with him and he shared a hilarious story, which had me howling.  Later, I watched a completely meaningless and intelligible-only-to-them exchange between my daughter and her best friend.  They are teenagers, but thankfully not the perennially sulky kind, and they enjoy being silly.  Whenever I see them laugh at their own goofiness, I invariably end up laughing, too. 

During the best times, laughter is just plain fun.  And during life's more difficult moments, laughter is at the very least a respite from our troubles.  But it also gives us hope that we will be happy -- and even silly -- again.

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P.S.  In the spirit of silly, Happy Birthday to Donny Osmond!  He may be 57, but in the hearts of many, he will always be our teenybopper heartthrob.