this is not the picture
that my daughter was making last night.
she carefully imagined and cut out white paper shapes
(an oval, a square, a group of parallelograms and various rhombi).
she then proceeded to color each one a solid shade.
they looked nothing like this picture.
can you guess how this piece was part of that process?
no? this was the piece of paper she put under the shapes as she colored
to make sure no paint got on the kitchen island.
i watched her pass out her shapes
early this morning.
one for the van driver that takes her brother to pre-k.
one for her own bus driver.
one for the little boy who rides bikes in our driveway
on warm, sunny afternoons.
she about burst with the sheer joy of having something to give.
i almost cried watching her.
then, after she’d left,
i salvaged this page from the recycle pile,
because it was my favorite all along.
i guess i’m not only a ‘process knitter’,
seems i’m also more into
other processes
(like her one specific night of painting and her deep
concentration at covering all the blank white on each shape).
results are great. i get that.
still, getting there remains more than half the fun for me.
What a sweet girl to make special gifts like that! She obviously sees giving and caring in her family. 🙂
very selfless daughter…she knows what it means just to give it all away…we need so little and can give so much…good lesson from this little beauty!! 😉
i learn more from my kids than i do from most grown-ups. it’s so motivating to watch them discover the new and the good in things that can become mundane for me. love this girl!