Thursday, May 14, 2009

Spreading Little Bits of Sweetness


After arriving home from picking in the strawberry fields yet once again this morning, the girls fixed up a little tin pail of strawberries for an elderly shut-in couple.

We visited. Charlotte demonstrated her ballet steps. Photographs of sons and daughters-in-law were passed around to admire. Big hugs wrapped us in warm, old clasps as we were leaving.

You start out to spread goodness but come away smothered in a double dose of sweetness. The blessing boomerangs....I hope my daughters caught it!

there and back

Earnest Hemingway absolutely stated it rightly by saying, "Never go on any trips with anyone you do not love."  It has been decade...