Best of the Day

Best memory of today, and there was a good selection to choose from:

Quick run out to Costco and my daughter came along for the ride. Stopped at the Starbucks drive-thru as we sometimes do. A song from Dear Evan Hanson playing on Spotify, and she knows all the words. As we are pulling in I pause the song to figure out our order, but she keeps singing a capella. For another 30 seconds, it’s just her doing her thing without any music, whimsical smile on her face – and I stop the car short of the order kiosk to let her finish.

A minute earlier, I had been worrying about whatever needed to get done this week. Grocery shopping and bills and whatever else. Something smacked me out of my self-absorption and I’m grateful it happened. To let that go for a moment, remembering that my daughter will be in college a year from now.

Changes are coming, and I do believe there will be good stuff to experience through all those future days.

But this is the time we have now. Grateful for the smack that reminded me to savor these moments while they are here.