wish.

i wish grown-ups could remember being kids.

have you seen this ornament in starbucks? i love it.

i wish grown-ups could remember this. to stop getting so caught up in the world. to remember what it was like to jump in the snow, eat snow flakes, make snow ice cream. to go barefoot all summer, to think it was fun to stay up all night and eat ice cream for breakfast. to be silly and goofy and laugh. to see joy and hope in the little things. to make an ant your friend. and a garden your play house. to be afraid really afraid of the dark, of spiders, of the monster in your closet.

i wish we could remember the anticipation of santa, the believing, the joy of christmas morning realizing he had come after all. seeing that the carrots you left for rudolph had been eaten and the milk gone. i wish for all that and more for you this christmas.