refresher

today after service pastor lo and auntie sally held a barbeque for those still in town for the spring&summer. on top of fab food and fellowshipping i also had the chance to make mud pies, be a first mate on a pirate ship, fight off circling sharks, and go on cruises around the backyard to humpback island to see humpback whales. several sea monsters and humpback whales were enlisted by my young captain sidekick (their identities shall remain anonymous).

but i guess

it was just so refreshing, to be around children again. to escape into their fantasy worlds and to see things as they see things. that sticks could be forks again, that tree roots could be safety islands, that a plastic figurine of donkey from shrek could be our navigator - that you could be anyone you wished to be, that you could do anything you've ever wanted or wished or hoped for. & holding a toddler in my arms, lifting her high to touch the pine cones from the trees... not a single word was spoken yet tons was said through her eyes and facial expression.

it's these things that i'd like to be hanging onto.