The Owl of Kindness

I didn't want to mention the new job starting today...In case I jinxed it. But start it did! And I made it all the way to the end of the shift with no mention of missing paperwork sending me back home. I have a few more shadow shifts over the next couple of weeks before I get let loose on my own but I am still sure that I'll really enjoy working as a PA to this young chap in his own home.

Gorgeous collected me from work at 6pm in wet and wild un-summery weather. I was headed into the porch to take a  flower blip when I noticed a card in the letterbox...Confused I sat and thought a few minutes wondering what would warrant a card...no Birthday... nothing to celebrate on the horizon. I decided it must be an invite to something and opened it.

What was inside was a whole heap of unexpected kindness that stirred up all sorts of emotions. In the middle of recent turmoil - The sudden realisation that someone was there watching over me and caring from afar. The childhood memories stirred up of first friendships and summers in a Buckinghamshire garden where plants grew wild and trailing, cared for but allowed to flourish as they should. This kindness and the memories have had tears rolling. Happy tears. Proud to have such beautiful friends who live so gently.

I'm not sure what to do with the gift inside the card. The thought and the words were plenty enough.