SMILE!

Smile!

Everyone has the ability to smile.
It comes with the package.
We see people smiling all the time,
with a wave of the hand, a beep on the horn,
with a quick hello on the way home from work.

Smile!

It must begin in the womb,
because a baby can smile
way before she learns to talk or walk.

Smile!

And if you see someone
who has forgotten how to smile,
tickle them, play jokes on them,
and if that doesn’t work, say it to them,
“Smile!” and if that doesn’t work,
put your upper teeth on your lower lip
and push air at them “Pfttttittttttt!”

Smile!

© Andy Costello, Reflections, 2009

P.S. That's my sister Peggy

[Sister Saint Monica, IHM]

outside the chapel

at Marywood, Scranton,

on her Golden Jubliee Celebration.

Is that a smile?