Truth is everywhere, all about us, urgently awaiting eyeballs and hearts. Psychic habit is the rusty efficient lock. Sometimes something as simple as taking the divinity of a child seriously can be a key.

Mama:
Oh such pretty colors! You made it?

4-year old kid:
Yup! It’s my new picture of you… I made it at Miss Denise’

Mama:
Let me see, I love it! Let me look.

4-year old kid:
(gives it over, a slight smile…)

Mama:
So lovely! I will put it on the fridge. But… what is this blue color around my hair?

4-year old kid:
(puzzled at her question…) That’s the blue light, Mama. The blue light always around your head.

_______RS

[ Note: True story… and really the kid’s painting. 🙂 ]