Melody (my 13 year old step-daughter) is in the hospital with pneumonia. She will be fine, and she's getting wonderful care, but it's still scary and upsetting. I am strongly encouraged to not be at the hospital, as my presence distresses her mother, which makes the situation even more challenging. Science of Mind tells us that we attract into our experience that on which we focus. So, rather than focusing on my general dismay, I found some lovely, fun quotes about the joys and wisdom of childhood...
"There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago." ~J. Robert Oppenheimer
"I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work." ~Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise
"Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination." ~Robert FulghumLabels: hospital, Lezli Goodwin, Melody
