Come Look! Come See! Look at what is out the window!
We are a family of observers.
In the days before IPhone, and IPads and Game boys and in car DVDs and
DVRs the world was mean to be observed.
In our family it was a good thing to be able to point something for
other’s to ooh and awe over.
A terminal moraine, a small
humming bird at a feeder, a flicker eating suet, a tree that has grown an odd
branch. A boulder out of place.
Such constant practice has made my life much more interesting if not
more complicated. If you notice things
you begin to see smaller and smaller differences. The way someone sits, the way a smile is not
quiet right, the person sitting in the corner not talking with anyone. The deep sadness on another person’s
face. It takes self control to not
reveal all that I see. I have found
over the years many don’t want to know that someone has noticed their limp they
are trying to conceal or how moved they
are by a movie or a song. Most tend to
keep their internal world to themselves.
We don’t start out so closed off.
Yesterday we went to water aerobics and Meb left the pool early. She went to the shower and a little girl
about 2 was watching her with great intentness.
Meb would wash her arm and the little girl would follow her every
move. She would rinse her back and the
little girl would turn and do the same.
The mom asked Mary-E if she did babysitting. Sadly my lovely, child loving daughter had to
explain why she could not, at this time and why. She did take great pleasure in her few
moments of being the observed.
More Sun, more observation. More enjoying the day in Seattle. As mom said yesterday. If we lived in California, this would be just
another day. Here it is a day to enjoy
and relish, as every day should be cherished.
1 comment:
Lots of smiles on today's post. And I have noticed: she is no longer "the child" - she is now MEB or Mary-Elizabeth.
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