Shape Shifting

Gracie

Gracie:

• Spends lots of her time looking inward, wondering if she’s all right

• Spends the rest of her time studying us to see if we’re all right 

• Tries to fix us when we’re not all right 

• Knows the rules, embraces the rules, worries “I’m still within the rules, right?”

Rose

Rose:

• Lives to play

• Can’t keep track of her own body parts (read: injuries--hers and ours)

• Pushes her face through the snow on the run

• Sleeps on the dining room table

Add Mark and myself to the pack, and we're talking FOUR wildly distinct personalities in our house--with at least one thing in common. We’re all pretty good at adjusting ourselves to fit into one another.

I’m going to take a little time today to think about my closest friends and their gracious acceptance of the many ways I’m unlike them.