Look For The Gifts

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Pumpkin…

Greets these old folks every morning…enjoys breakfast…bathes…plays with toys…then heads out for the day…to do whatever barn cats do…

Comes back in the evening…stays a little longer…eats supper…cuddles…plays more toys…watches tv…and then…sleeps…and sleeps…and sleeps…

Until eyes pop open…nap time over…and off to the door he goes…

But funny thing…that friend of ours won’t leave unless door opening me goes outside with him…stands on the porch while he walks away…waves…tells him to be safe…

And funny thing again…that friend of ours always pauses and looks back one last time before walking away…as if to say good-bye…this heartbreaking irony is not lost on mama me…

All those years…that family tradition…those daughters of mine leaving after a visit…one of us standing on the steps as they drive away…waving…blowing kisses…they looking back while driving…blowing kisses too…

And so it is…in life…those little gifts the universe gives you…a song…a food…a memory…a gift that brings your loved ones close…even though they are so very far away…

Look for them…find them…treasure them…
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And those daughters of mine…agree…