Tag: joy
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Day Two Hundred Fourty Five, September 24, 2011
To wake up excited about a new day, to find something wonderful about any type of weather, to look at mud as a potential mud pie, to view a puddle as a chance at some great splash excitement, to laugh at funny things without any inhibition including a funny face or a very fat bum,…
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Day Two Hundred Two, August 12, 2011
A word that is born in children and lives in their very essence. They zip through their first years with a great hunger to learn, to be, to run, to eat, to play, to see, to experience and they do that with a great intensity. And we often catch ourselves asking: “where do they get…
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Day One Hundred Seventy Nine, July 20, 2011
The fields are so much richer in impressions than television, the forests are so much prettier than video games, the bugs are so much more interesting than electronic toys, the smells of nature are so much more intense and more pleasant than plastic smells of toys made in factories, the air is so much more…
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Day One Hundred Five, May 7, 2011
Being a parent we spend most days wearing different hats, care giver, teacher, guide, coach, nurse, leader, comforter, helper, dresser, shopper, cook,.. you know how it goes. But there are those special days when we find the freedom to just ‘be’ with our children. We enter their realm, we shift gears to be on their…
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Day Fifty Nine, March 22, 2011
delight! The twinkle in your eyes the notes in your voice the chimes in your laughter the theater of your expression the warmth of your heart the innocence of your being the brilliance of your mind the humor of your mischief the bounce of your hair the smell of your hugs the simple fact of…
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Day Fifty, March 13, 2011
A magical circle of girls To watch a group of little girls play in harmony is to witness magic in the making! I was transfixed watching Lea and her friends play this afternoon from the window of our 16th floor apartment in Shanghai. Little pink shapes running, hair flying, smiles shining, conspiracies being planned, whispers…