"Architect Frank Lloyd Wright told how a lecture he received at the age of nine helped set his philosophy of life: An uncle, a stolid no-nonsense type, had taken him for a long walk across a snow-covered field. At the far side, his uncle told him to look back at their two sets of tracks.
"See, my boy," he said, "how your foot prints go aimlessly back and forth from those trees, to the cattle back to the fence and then over there where you where throwing sticks? But notice how MY path comes straight across, directly to my goal. You should never forget this lesson!"
"And I never did," Wright said, grinning. "I determined right then not to miss most things in life, as my uncle had."
I'm grateful for little kids who think different then we do. I am not a morning person seriously it takes me hours before I feel like the fog has lifted. I like things to run smoothly eat, get dressed,clean, school.
So it's hard when I wake up to chores not done(I HATE waking to mess!!!) and find that the littlest ones decided to paint.... with my paints.... Black everywhere..... (Darn it that I didn't take a picture I was just annoyed). Then Ollie comes down in my Dad's hat and at first I'm annoyed. He's in my stuff again!!! But then I look and he's so darn cute smiling under that big black hat.
So it makes me take a step back think of my Dad then see the funny in all that happened this morning. Then Nadia just had to show me the Lol cats bible and well I remember how very grateful that kids take a wandering path and take me along.
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