in everyday things.So far I am successfully maintaining my daily gardening duties. My flowers are blooming, even my herb garden is thriving! It's a miracle. a total freaking miracle.
Now, let me share a story with you. It is a dramatic story of loss; yet, within this moment of loss you will see how the beauty of others can emerge...
"Kaylee if you bring him in the store you might lose him" I distinctly recall saying to my sweet daughter.
...Moments after arriving home from our shopping excursion, I soon discovered that my daughter lost her Shamu. I began calling the 3 stores we had visited to try to locate him. One place we visited was a thrift store. Great. Good luck on that one, right?! yes, yes, a long shot, I know...but I called anyways. A man answered, I detailed my dilemma. He understood surprisingly well how important a lost toy was to a child, he told me, describing his horrific ordeal trying to comfort a distraught son who too had lost his treasured toy.
The kind worker searched high and low, securing all workers on the hunt, even calling employees who had been working...Devastation could be heard in his voice as he informed me that they could not find the whale.
At moments I thought to explain to this kind man the truth. The truth being that I was not doing this to relieve my daughter, I was doing this because that whale was expensive! I had just bought him days before at Seaworld, and you can only imagine how much that toy cost!!! I felt ashamed to tell him the truth, that really Kaylee was not losing any sleep, nor her appetite, over all this. I will keep that my little secret.
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