The Two Whos

Sometimes, we can get caught up in mundane  things and forget to see that the beauty of life is everywhere: a kind gesture, an appreciative note, an open door, a beautiful flower, or a container of left over food…  We give the gift of beauty everyday to each other; beautiful heart, beautiful action, beautiful food, beautiful words, beautiful flowers…  The gift of beauty can come a full cycle…

Cece calls Yun  and marvels at the flowers Yun brought for her over the weekend: “They are so beautiful,  The unopened buds are like the music notes, bouncing ups and down like they are dancing!   Thank you so much!”  Cece is a visual artist, so you know.

Yun equally has things to marvel at except she is not so visual arty: “The beef soup you send home with me is so delicious, even Patrick likes it.  Now I know that he likes gourmet authentic food.  The 9 year old?  I am in trouble, but thank you!”

The flowers, the soup are the chain of gift of beauty from one human to another….

Cece always goes out of her way to help people, including her employees.  Not to go into details,  she has given the gift of a beautiful heart to one of her employees.

Last Friday morning, Yun got a phone call from Cece: “Wow, my employee brought me a big pot of Vietnamese beef soup with the rice noodle enough to feed an army.  She knows how much I like Vietnamese soup, and this is her way to thank me for helping her…. “  The wonderful lady has given Cece the gift of a beautiful home made meal.

Cece said: “Come on over and let’s have a feast on this wonderful most delicious meal.  I will call Stephanie….”  Here, she open her home and spread the gift of beautiful friendship…

Yun wanted to surprise Cece with some beautiful flowers.  Cece was greeted at the door by Yun who announced “I will arrange them for you.”   While Cece was preparing the food, Yun was arranging the big bouquet of flowers into three vases: small one for Cece’s bathroom, large one for the living room and medium one for the alter…  She watched in amazement as Yun meticulously cut the tips and trimmed the leaves as the cats looked on with joy!  If  Cece had done this, she would not have done it with such beauty and caring.  She would have plopped them into a vase and called them “arranged!”

Later, the gift of beauty, came full cycle when Yun went home with the left over beef soup that makes her pizza-hamburger-addictive young son fall in love with Vietnamese beef  soup!  Talking about the best cultural education!

Beauty is in the eyes  of the  beholder.  We  hope you have very generous eyes for beauty,  and a very generous heart to give and receive beauty, so you will see the gift of beauty even in the mundane things…

“Bye for Now” From The Two Whos