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A perfect square
Comes in every color variation of a rainbow
The pre-twitter message delivery
Endless possibilities
A simple note
An important date
A reminder too bright to ignore
A chance to rekindle something lost
My son asked if I had a use for these post-its he just found
With a nod and a smile
They are yours, use them wisely
His thoughts blasting off in his head
Now with a place to easily land
“I love you Mom”
“Sad!”
“I like blue jays”
“You are the best”
A drawing of a shark
“You are the best singer”
All these messages land in front of me
In the span of 5 minutes
We all need an opportunity
The ability
To have our thoughts heard
All these beautiful, emotional pieces
I would never have known
He doesn’t speak like this
Instead when his head is full
He stews, stomps, groans, slams, pushes, cries, whines, moans
Anything but spoken words
He is comfortable offering his emotions, ideas
On a simple post-it note
I had no idea, the ease with which, he would share his honest messages
My boy
He hands me his heart
I read and take it in, hold him, his messages close
Softly
Marvel at all of him and open to the deeper understanding
How good, true, it feels to have your voice heard.
*This weeks writing challenge, to write about an “object”. Please check out all the entries HERE. (scroll to the bottom of the post)
The Shady Tree 
This tickled me: “The pre-twitter message delivery,” and buy the end my heart was melting. Lovely.
Thank you, for reading, commenting and feeling something! You just made me smile.
This reflects so well how powerful a post it can be! I hadn’t thought of this before 😉
Thank you! I love little messages, sometimes they have the greatest impact.
That was so very sweet and powerful. You are allowing him to be himself and think outside of the box and in turn, he is breaking through those walls and sharing his thoughts with you. LOVE!!!
It was so unexpected actually. It wasn’t like I said, “here is a stack of post-it’s write those feelings here.” I did just let him write and write through the entire stack once he found them in the back of a drawer. Which always kills me to see such waste. In this case, I wouldn’t call it waste. His messages are so sweet and I was so relieved to see that even in his growling moments there is love and even innocent drawings bubbling at the surface. I just only see the growls unless he writes. Powerful indeed.
Oh what a lovely post 🙂 I love little hand-written surprises – we ran out of post-its a long time ago and now take to the back of a junk-mail envelope or the corner of a paper towel but still…it’s the thought that counts 🙂
Thank you! It’s funny, I can never find even a back of an old envelope to write a grocery list on. I totally forgot these were in a back drawer from the dollar store. Once my boys get a hold of these, they are used up in the span of 30 minutes. It’s a quiet 30 minutes though, so I’ll take it. 🙂
A whole 30 minutes? I’ve gotta get me some of these 😉 have you seen all the funny shaped ones that are around now? They’re (sadly) a little more than a dollar though
Yes, maybe I need to start collecting! Always need to keep a bit ahead of my boys (or at least try!). New shapes, new colors, only a nod, no suggestion and then they run in a beautiful direction!
🙂 sounds like a plan