Friday, May 09, 2008

• Simple Thrills

  I was sitting about thinking of all the things I miss in my life--nothing serious, just bemusing about times past.  It came to mind the times that I was a young child and the thrill I felt when my grandpa reached into his pocket and pulled out a candied mint like it was magic.  My grandpa 'always' had those in his pocket...many years later I wondered how long they were carried about in his pocket just waiting to connect with a young child...but as a child, I only marveled at how they always appeared at the right times.  They always followed with a tousle of the hair, or a hug.  To this day, whenever I see those mints I think of my grandpa. When my children were small I use to love and inhale the simple smell of the freshly bathed baby wrapped up in their bath towel looking refreshed with energy anewed and the smell that cannot compare to many others.  Those smells never change and will always invoke tender, cherished moments. The picture is of Amanda and the thrill she received just being in awe of a simple thing called a 'drink umbrella'.  She adored getting it in her drink.  It made me think of the first time I might have been given a drink umbrella....I must have felt the same wonderment she did...funny how we forgot those simple thrills. In the case of my friends, Denise and Rene' came, we had our dinner together, we laughed, we remembered, we reflected on the futures looming ahead for them, for us...we knew the night had to come to end, but I really didn't want to close that chapter.  They will be boarding that plane next week to fly off to Switzerland to begin that new chapter,  and we will be here in Seattle, still plugging away at this chapter, still writing it as we go. The big momentous times and events are life changing and rock our core....but the simple pleasures and thrills....those are the things that keep us grounded and knowing that we can continue to plug along and play at this thing called life....

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