Finding the Good
I have a confession. I am in love. With more than one - is that possible?
This season you will see our toys in about 40 stores, schools and museums! And these spaces carrying our toys are the sweetest looking and beautifully curated spaces one could hope to be a part of. I could spend an afternoon in these places if ever I was close enough to visit! (One day!)
I suppose it’s like your children (whether those children are people or pets). You love one, and then the next one comes along and you love them with the love you didn’t know you had left to give.
After a year of so much uncertainty and anxiety and incredible loss, these spaces that believe in the hope our children represent feel like an urgent insistence — a gentle but persistent tug to remind us that yes, there’s so much good around us. It might be harder to see this year more than other times, but it is there.
There is hope in these individual acts, trying to share sweetness, kindness, gentleness, and imagination. There is good because each individual act adds up and bring me such joy!
Are you lucky enough to be near these places? Because if you are, and if you can, go visit! Not just to support these neighborhood small businesses, but to feel the joy I feel just looking at their photos and posts!
I hope you have been able to find joy in the simple acts and witness hope in action - I certainly will keep my eyes and arms open to that.
P.S. I really must do better than these once a year blog posts - maybe I’ll get another one in before the new year.