We went to the kite show at the business park yesterday.  How fun.  Can you believe that a person can simply sit and thrill at kites flying?   Such variety and such colors.  Wonderful to watch the kids, of all ages, get excited about flying them.  Our family has a kite that we have valued for years.  It is sort of a fabric thing and we have had a lot of fun with it.  I think the last time we flew it was in the midst of Princess Diana’s death when the world was reeling from that.  It has lasted as have our memories that went with it.   The memory of some kites/fun last forever.   We have a pin-wheel sort of thing that lives in our side-yard – it is faded, looks beat up but just keeps spinning as it has for seven or eight years.  It should be in shreds and broken by now – but it spins on and we thoroughly enjoy it.  We have a game using two paddles, like ping-pong paddles made of plastic and some silky fabric - we have also had that for years and have enjoyed it immensely and will never part with it.   I thoroughly enjoy these kinds of things because they bring with them such warm and fuzzy memories – bet you never thought I’d never make a statement like that.   Those are the things worth holding on to.  I think God enjoys them and holds on to them also.  

Till next week….h

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