Life Is Like...

A Bowl of Cherries

Sometimes the smallest things

 can bring you joy.

Some of you may already know I

have an obsession with a collection

of Japanese blue & white bowls.

Whenever I'm in Pearl River Mart

in Soho I pick up a few.

One day Mr. Wonderful & I stopped

into our favorite little thrift shop in our

 neighborhood in NYC's Hells Kitchen.

I found the sweetest little blue & white

bowls with cherries but since that was

the first stop on our "Things we have to

do while in New York" list, I didn't buy

them because I didn't want to have to lug

them around all day.  No sooner were we

a few blocks away when the regret started

in.  I worried all day about those bowls, I

could picture someone else snatching them

up and displaying them in their NYC kitchen.

So, later that day, I sent Mr. Wonderful back

to get them.  I could describe exactly where

they were in the store and with the Luck of

the Irish, they were still there.  We use them

all the time, for our hot & sour soup lunches,

cereal for breakfast or a late night bowl

of ice cream.

But my favorite way to use them,

is to fill the bowl with ice and water

and throw in a handful of ripe cherries.

Yum!  It's heaven on a hot summer day.