Best Day Ever!

Wow--it's The PocketPeople's first official Christmas card...

I wanted to write something a bit more radical but I guess since I am trying to slowly introduce myself, I better keep it light and lovely:)

Is Christmas really the best day ever? Well, it was when I was 11. I looked forward every year to promising my mom I wouldn't get up before 7 AM and that I would be SO thankful no matter what I got. Waiting by the Christmas tree, shaking the gifts--oh JOY:)

These days, I am much more thrilled to GIVE. It is truly one of the more overlooked and easy ways to quickly recharge your heart. I can't tell you how excited I get building up a special package to send to my best friend in Arkansas. I just get a medium box and start adding things. By the time Christmas comes around, I have compiled quite a varied and exciting gift! I wouldn't mind sending it to myself!

No no no...I am not one of those people who gets angry because Christmas is too commercialized and all about this or all about that. No, I think Christmas is an amazing Opportunity. It's a great excuse to be the extra shiny happy and obnoxiously delighted child that I am without people thinking I am crazy. Or do they? I can wave at strangers and ask the beautiful elderly woman in line the best way to make pie crust. I can give away PocketPeople to unsuspecting people--the grumpy people are the best! Presenting a PocketPerson to a guy whose face is filled with intensity because he had to make yet his fifth trip to the store before it closes...priceless.

I have discovered the POWER of a smile and a sincere look of compassion. Even passing the homeless guy on the corner is joyful because I know I can't fix anything for him, but I CAN smile. I CAN give him a PP. I CAN say hey, be careful out there. AND IT WORKS much BETTER than a quarter thrown in annoyance. Or turning your back and pretending they aren't there.

A little kindness goes an extremely long way. I dare you to turn your kindness channel UP and your annoyance channel DOWN and experience people from the heart.

When people say things like 'life isn't all about YOU.' it seems to always be said in anger. I personally feel the opposite..it IS all about you. Because once YOU begin to open your eyes to the glory of being---how YOU live has everything to do with how others live too. Be that mirror for your neighbor. Be that person you know you are--not just when people are looking, but when nobody can see you but yourself.

All things good to you. All things good to me. Let the sharing never end:)

“They who give have all things; they who withhold have nothing” HinduProverb