Sunday, January 10, 2016

The sweetness of innocence

While enjoying the Christmas  Ballet  Nutcracker  , I was  thoroughly caught  up in the beautiful stage dressings of tapestry and lights, the  fanciful props like giant cake decorations while  sweeping music with full imagery and beautiful ballerinas in   they're sparkling enchanting gowns  gracefully leapt  and pirouettes  across the stage ,  I was  caught  in a moment of surprise   by the tiny sweet voice of innocense. 
She was sitting behind me with her mother and her Family asking is that the sugarplum fairy? in earnest she asked again, sitting on her  mother's lap and pointing at the  stage. 
Her little voice was the greatest joy for  me that evening. Joi d Vivre . Joy of life ,   As The French put it  simply. For hers was the voice of innocents and naïveté. 
This beautiful gift of innocence   comes to us by the children. This is the most delicate and fragile as niavitee and lasts only a few years comparatively in their childhood. 

It is a gift to all of us.  Do we  not all smile  when we hear the laughter of little children. 
It truly lightens the heart. 
I believe we must provide guardianships of their innocence and naivete. 
This is an act of preservation for not only our world but our culture here at home. 

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