My Smile Moments

Here we are at the end of yet another year, season and time!


As surely as there are regrets and unfulfilled dreams, so are there moments that makes us smile. I recall a few: one of them is my chimes, the thought of which makes me smile a truly secret smile!


I had wanted these for the longest time and when I finally stumbled on one it had to be a teacup, no less. I mean, for someone who likes tea, it was the perfect thing.


But on the day that we put it up, the night was still. Unerringly so! Nothing moved. It was so quiet and I got really worked up. All I wanted was for the chimes to immediately begin to, well, produce sound! Back and forth the window I went, peeking at it, wondering if we had hung it right. Maybe the cylinders aren’t well aligned? I wondered why tonight of all nights there was no breeze - nothing twitched. But I wasn’t going to go to sleep without hearing that thing. Then I did. Gently and quietly those pretty, slim, pink cylinders came together in the sweetest sound I have ever heard! My smile was so huge and the thought that popped in my head was ‘that is the promised sound!’ This is exactly what chines are meant to do. No matter what part of the house I am in, I can always hear that very pleasing twink twink, however faint, and it never ceases to amaze me.

Finding those moments, making memories out of the small things without necessarily sweating the big ones, is really important. And so, the chime, which I have named The Sound of Promise, as well as my little Christmas tree, are a few of my favourite things things year. They automatically provoke a smile, and are a constant reminder that no matter what is going on, when the time is right…the time is right.

And just last night, I was remarking to someone that I hadn't heard that twink twink in a while, and right on cue...there it was.

What are your ‘smile’ moments? If for some reasons you have none, you should create them.


…be free oh.