For Alexis

Young at heart is all in how we feel and comes with Christmas bells and sunshine, cloudy, rainy days when stamping in mud puddles is fun, kicking through autumn leaves piled high ‘round trees gifting the ground, wishing on the man in the moon and the twinkling stars high in a velvet sky, diving into piles of new fallen snow just because, feeling the wind combing your hair and filling your face, streaming tears tracing rivers down chubby cheeks in tantrums and frustration growing into life ~

Brilliantly creating fun in each precious moment 

When tragedy strikes hard and fast

when sadness overwhelms and smothers our joy

there is only aged sadness in our broken hearts

until the remembering begins of 

   the blessed child that played

     the dazzling child that laughed and sang

       the brilliant child that was the moon and the stars

A time when tears of sadness mix with tears of laughter

  Gently restoring youthful feelings with the wisdom of youth for aging hearts to live life.

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; 

as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; 

as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

~ Douglas MacArthur