A Moment Not To Be Missed.

I watched a little boy pulling a wagon today.

Round and round our country block, until his face flushed red from the strain. In the back, his passengers – two little ones – shrieking with delight.

“Aren’t your arms growing tired,” I called from the porch.

To which he replied.

“You can never get tired making other people smile.”

And, off he went…as simple as that. Touché, and blessings – my little four-foot Buddhist friend.

From the mouths of babes, they say, comes an indispensable wisdom. Immeasurable in its capacity to transform our often all-too-rigid thinking.

With one quick and unassuming breath, they leap so effortlessly past ego. Like stones skipping across a pond, touching only just long enough to force a ‘ripple.’ Leaving a little extra something for us grown ups to consider.

Imagine, just how easily ‘something like this’ might have been missed? A missed appointment, a broken dish — and, we’ve all but let it slip.

Every day, we makes plans and assumptions for our tomorrow. But the truth is, we just never really know. Our lives can change so unexpectedly — all the more reason to cherish what we have.

My darlings, it’s the tiniest of these micro-moments which reveal the magnificence in this miracle of life.

The trick is being awake enough to fully cherish it.

About

Tara Lemieux is a mindful wanderer, and faithful stargazer. Although she often appears to be listening with great care, rest assured she is most certainly‘forever lost in thought. She is an ardent explorer and lover of finding things previously undiscovered or at the very least mostly not-uncovered.

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