SUMMER FUN - A TREASURE HUNT!

We've had four days of Summer--did you notice? Hot, muggy, sunny...then thunderstorms, less muggy, water everywhere...then cooling off, nice breeze, some sun but not too much.... Repeat! Yup, Summer, for sure.

If you're back into your usual Summertime activities--ball games ad infinitum, picnics, swimming, tennis, car trips, camping, hiking--then you don't need an activities director to help you fill your time.

But if you're looking for something to do--something different to do--how about a treasure hunt?

The ones I recall from my youth involved clues to follow: in elementary school, they were simple statements of where to look--the biggest oak in the park, the red see-saw, the rose garden. 

In fourth grade, we read Treasure Island and made our own treasure maps. I recall getting to singe the edges of the paper on the kitchen stove (the singed edges created authenticity in our  maps)--Mom standing by, probably biting her nails, ready to grab the flaming map and fling it in the sink. But nothing untoward happened.

Then in my teens, when somebody in our group had a car, we followed clues scattered around town--swimming pool, baseball diamond, grade school playground, library fountain. Again the clues were written on paper, and a new one would be found at the place where the previous bit of treasure was located. Sometimes the clue told us what to find--blue sock, purple necktie . . . .

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I won't ask you to go back to your childhood or teen years--but I will ask you to do some deep thinking and some keen observation.

For this Treasure Hunt you need to search for only three (3) treasures. Ready?

--Kindness

--Generosity

--Selflessness

That's it! Find as many examples as you can of each of these three things. Write them down. You won't need to turn them in--but keep the list for a few weeks. Look at it now and then. Share it with somebody if you want to. 

This isn't hard to do. Consider the following examples:

Do you find yourself smiling at some act of kindness you saw? It could be a dog watching a child eat an ice cream cone, not begging, not trying to snatch it away; and the child offers the cone to the dog.

Does your heart swell when you find out an anonymous someone gave a huge amount of money to fund a much-needed improvement in your community?

Do tears flood your eyes when you hear of the selfless gift of life by an organ donor?

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Feel free to pass this Treasure Hunt idea along to someone you know will appreciate it.

Blessings from Thursday's Child