Give and Ye Shall Receive
One of my goals when I volunteer at the food pantry, #SoWhatElse, is to make people laugh. It is not always a happy place. People come because they don't have enough money to buy groceries to feed their families. It isn't hard.to make people smile. We always give them big smiles and they almost always smile right back at us. Laughter is a little more difficult. I find that I have to be creative and I have to lose some filters. I love when the tables are turned and people make me laugh, especially when it's a baby. Last Tuesday a lady came in holding her baby. I doubt that he was even 2 years old. He was adorable. He had long curly hair and an impish grin. I love kids and I usually find toys or food to give them. I found something to give this baby and he smiled and winked at me. I wanted to know if it that wink was deliberate, so I gave him a book and he winked at me again. I burst out laughing. Every time I interacted with him, I got a wink. Everyone around that baby was l...