― Henri Frederic Amiel
Tonight as we
drove home from a school reading event, my son wanted to keep reading his book
in the car. As I looked in the back seat,
I saw one of his sisters holding her phone with the flashlight app so that he
could read. "Did he ask you to do that?"
I asked. "No," she replied
with a very sweet smile that had no trace of wanting to be a too-cool teenager.
That small
gesture took me back a number of years to a power outage after a
hurricane. We had no electricity and
only a couple of flashlights, including a very small one with a lens about the size of a quarter. In the midst of the madness, I marveled at
how each of my daughters took a turn holding the small flashlight while the
other took her turn coloring.
Despite the
sometimes seemingly endless days when children are young, childhood goes by in
a flash. But those moments of pure
kindness among siblings -- when bickering seems momentarily forgotten -- last
forever.
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