Pure Joy {16 of 31 Slice of Life}

Last minute plans.  Total surprise.  Pure joy.   My middle daughter goes to college a couple of hours away and my oldest is twenty minutes away at graduate school.  I've been wanting to have the oldest visit the middle daughter and yesterday at the last minute it happened.  Here's the actual slice.

We arrive at the Cultural Visual Arts building and start mingling with a mission.  We are looking for A and her friend.  Not in the first room.  Not in the second room.  We start to look around corners and across the room and in the third room when N says, "There they are.  It's perfect they don't see us."  N is gone in a flash and I reach for my camera.  N taps her on the shoulder.  A turns around and breaks into a bouncy left, right, left body twist with arms bent at elbow - flapping a bit with the twist motion.  Her long blond hair bounces along with a grin that extends her face.  N turns to me with the biggest grin and laugh.  

I've re-watched this video lots of times; it's just four seconds.  Joyous moments can be quick and lift your soul while warming your heart.  

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