“Yessssss,” a little voice said as I pulled out of the garage.
Smiling, I asked, “What are you so excited about?”
“Look at the sky,” Sam said.
It was grey.
Overcast.
Dreary.
Cloudy.
Dark.
Foreboding.
I checked my rear view mirror. He was still smiling ear-to-ear. I was curious about his excitement. “What makes you excited about a grey day?”
“Mom, the sky is perfect for the sun to wink at me today.”
“What do you mean?”
“Yesterday, when we were driving, the sun winked at me between the clouds. Remember?”
I smiled and looked at the sky again with new eyes. It really isn’t that gross of a morning, especially when I think about the potential of a wink. You know, life is like this a lot too. We glance in a direction and make a snap decision. We think it is dark, dreary, and cloudy. Maybe instead we should look for the wink, the glimpse of hope that is lurking just beyond the muddle.
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How Poetic!
Kids are the best sources of poetry. I am now going to look for winks in the sky on gray days.
Thank you.
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This is precious, love the optimism of your son! Excitement for the possibility of sun . . . I will be watching for it the next cloudy day.
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Out of the mouth’s of babes–love this. I will never look at a cloudy day the same way again.
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Love the kid dialogue. I also love the one-word sentence list describing the sky. I miss the car conversations I used to have with my kids.
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Love life from a kid’s perspective! These precious moments we want to remember forever. Thank you! (Wink! Wink!)
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Leave it to our kids to put things into perspective. My boys do this to me all the time. They truly are a gift in many ways. I will now look at grey days in a new way…eager to see that wink.
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Love it!
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What a fun way of looking at the world! This reminds me that my friend’s son (yes, I am one of those vicarious parents, whose friends’ stories of parenthood become my own) had a fit in the car this morning over his coat creating “mountains” when he sat down. “Mountains” is such a fun way to describe that annoying bubble a jacket zipper makes when you sit down in the car. We all need to take some moments to see the world through children’s eyes now and then.
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Thank you for sharing this uplifting and sweet story!
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A wink of hope!! This boy of yours is a gem!!!
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I had a tough day yesterday and you just made things better with your story. I love that you took what happened with your son and turned it into something so fine. I’m going to sticky note it on the desktop: “look for the wink, the glimpse of hope that is lurking just beyond the muddle.”
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