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. 🙂 ]
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This was a wonderful read 💙
thanks so much, Sruti, glad that it appealed to you 🙂
A delightful gift! 🤗
Thanks as always, Carol! yeah, I thought so too 🙂
What a delightful, if cryptic, thing to say to their Mama.
🙂 Thanks, Mitch. Yes, delightful for sure. I know the ‘mama’ well and she relates that he was deadpan serious.
And the fridge has a picture that is sorta ugly yet carries a deep emotional meaning to the mother.