“I wish I could bottle it.”

A beautiful post. I love how you see the world, Alex. You really SEE. And when you DON’T see, when you’re caught up in a moment of frustration, or being late, or whatever … you are always ready to be jolted back into awareness. You accept the gift – when it comes. You recognize the messenger. Many people don’t. A homeless man who calls you “Missy” is a messenger. You SAW him as such. It’s like this: the universe is there, with all its gifts, at all times. We just forget to see sometimes … because life gets that way, for all of us. Many people refuse to be jolted back into an awareness of the beauty and simplicity of things. They are too cynical. Too lost to revelation. Too busy bitching about their fellow man and how annoying he is at all times. That’s what I love so much about posts like this one you just wrote. You help me remember to LOOK, to SEE.