Day 2 – gifts

I hurried out to give my daughter her daughter’s forgotten water bottle.

“She wants to tell you something”, my daughter said.

And with a bit of timid and hopeful whisper of surprising me, she said

“I gave you something, a gumball and a frog.”

On the hood of my car in the mist of Monday morning, smack dab in the center, a tiny green frog for her baby brother and for me, a seed pod from a tree, “gumballs” we call them.

Gifts.

I brought them inside, laid them on the counter, gifts for keeping.

I have been given an abundance of many such treasures.

Feathers, pebbles, sketches, smiles, kisses and walks on October mornings.

You?