today, i managed to pull a rabbit out of a hat…worked a little magic and made a cool gift happen for someone important.
i love knowing i have the right gift for someone in hand…i get giddy over knowing the delight it will bring. i have no patience, as usual, so i’m terrible to give gifts too early. this gift was meant to be a christmas present…and i think i held onto it like ten minutes before i had to go ahead and gift it because i was absolutely buzzing with glee over it.
ahhhhh, such a great reward: the surprise, the head shaking disbelief, the smile. i cried a little, more than once, but i think i hid it well…when someone is happy through to their core, it makes me pretty damn happy, too. overwhelming happiness from a gift given with a glad heart and received so enthusiastically: beautiful.
it’s not a price tag thing. gifts without soul, without heart, can cost buckets of cash and still be meaningless. the best gifts are the ones that are so perfectly right for the recipient, and dollars don’t factor into the perfection.
better to give than receive—though in this case, it’s possible the recipient is as pleased and glowing as i am. this is the good stuff: moments to remember where you caught someone off guard, made them grin, can feel happiness radiating out through your every pore in response to their happiness. yeah, this is the good stuff.