Smile!!!

I hope you enjoy Mira's homecoming pictures and the words below.

Namaste,

Michele

What saves me from the tedium of another day is falling hopelessly in love
with the people I meet:

the curly-haired barista at the coffee shop who
hands me my change as if dipping his fingers into holy water;

the girl with Down syndrome who talks loudly about vacationing with her grandmother;

the elderly couple who grow giant buble-gum-colored puffs of dahlias at the

corner of Twelfth and Chambers;

the toddler girl across the street who bleats sweetly, "Mama come see!"

I fall in love with the deep timbre of my brother's laugh;

the way my mother says my name;

the way my father calls me sweetheart;

the way my sweetheart calls me baby.

-- Bobbie Willis