Giggling Babies And Mini Goats....

Okay, so every now and then, I believe we need some outright goofiness to take a bit of weight off of the horribly heavy news that humanity tends to generate.

I find that if we don't, it can be easy to start believing that the dark crap is all the world has to offer, and that is just so not true. Not even close.

Precious few things make me smile the way that baby giggles and mini goats do. We need more giggling babies and mini goats!

I'm fully aware that this will in no way take away the very real pain that accompanies these very real and gut-wrenching moments in history, but maybe, just maybe, it can be a small distraction that provides a few minutes of respite.

I mean, in all actuality, giggling babies and mini goats are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

There are baby elephants chasing butterflies, misbehaving monkeys, not to mention all of the cat, puppy, and baby videos, and the combinations of all of the above.

These are just one small sampling of the joyful, laughter-inducing videos available to the average joe, and, these are just videos.

Then, there are the things that happen every single day.

For instance, listen to an almost two-year-old tell a knock-knock joke. Let a 10-year-old teach you how to play a complicated video game, although not particularly funny to you, makes the 10-year-old lose his mind! In this case, in my defense, the last video game I was any good at was N64 Mario.

For instance, the reactions from your adult kids after sending them hilarious, and, maybe sometimes, slightly inappropriate snapchats. The oh-so-priceless look on your hubby's face when you seductively suggest you are going to go slip into something that will make him smile, then come out in your Batman onesie, and poop emoji slippers.

For instance, ask your Grandma how wifi works, then sit back and take notes. Watch the expression on the face of someone under the age of twenty as you describe how you grew up with two channels on tv, without internet, or computers, or texting and had one phone for the whole family and it was attached to the wall!

The lighter side of life is out there, it just, generally, gets upstaged by the crap show.

Take some time to look for your mini goats.


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Well, that about does it for now.......


May you find a few goofy giggles each and every day.
May you give them centre stage, let them steal the show, in every possible way.

May you see that no matter how badly the dark fights for attention, no matter how big it tries to grow,
May you see you carry with you the power of the giggle, its magic covering any darkness with a rainbow.

May you rediscover smiles you thought were stolen or lost.
May you reclaim your revelry, bring it in from the cold, thaw the frost.



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Until next time...

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