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and Kids Activities and xmas stories. Was
driving home from the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping and errands and
it began to snow. The roads were becoming slick and I exercised caution. My focus
was on my driving -- and not ending up in the trunk of the car ahead of me.
I
was tense from the running, from the errands and everything else that all too
often masks our happiness. All I could think about was getting home. I was tired.
I
don't know why it hit me, but as I approached a stop light, I noticed a house
with Christmas lights on -- their colors reflecting off the new fallen snow. I
was immediately taken back to a time when I was a small girl, staring out of our
picture window watching the snow fall. Our Christmas lights were right below the
window, and I remember looking in wonder, amazement and excitement as the snow
covered the lights and the colors magically shown through. I remembered feeling
the warmth of the radiator against my small body while being just inches away
from the cold, New England snow.
I couldn't wait to go out the next day
and play in it. The snow symbolized two things for me: days off from school and
Christmas.
My eyes misted with tears as I came back to my adult world.
How could it be that something so beautiful could be lost? I am not casting aside
the fact that as an adult driving in the snow is perilous. But where did the wonder
go? Where did my appreciation for such beauty lie? Was it buried beneath being
a "grown up"?
The traffic light turned green. I gazed once more at the
house with the Christmas lights reflecting off the snow and smiled.
I saw
the beauty again, as I did when I was a girl.
It is often said that we
should keep the innocence and wonder that we had as a child when viewing the world.
Now
I know what that means. It really does make you happier.
And it snowed.
Ellen
M. DuBois Ellen M.
DuBois, MA - Ms. DuBois is engaged and has a dog who loves to critique her work.
She is published in vol.2 of God Allows U-Turns with her piece, "The Angel in
the Dumpster". She writes to touch the hearts of others. Please visit Writings
of the Heart, her award winning writer's resource site- writingsoftheheart.homestead.com/index.html |
