Small lesson, big impression. (Dad, Grandma, tulip bulbs.)

The Event

I am very little (couldn't have been more than 6), sitting in the back seat of the car with my brother while Dad says goodbye to Grandma Cairns.

Grandma offers Dad a box of tulip bulbs.

Dad thanks her and says no, he doesn’t think so; she insists and he politely declines a second time, and we say goodbye and drive off.

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The Lesson

I asked Dad why he didn’t take them. “They were free,” I said.

He responded: “Because we didn’t need them.”

[2014-01-08]

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Mimi reflected in a cross.

 

No lesson here, just an interesting moment in time.

 

[2014-01-12]

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