Sad Looking Stone Post

September 3, 2023

Last September Beth was in Springfield, Missouri with her family. They celebrated the 95th birthday of Beth's dad. 

The celebration was happy, but this funny old post looks weary and sad. Beth and her son went for a jog the day after party and stopped next to this stone post. It stands in the yard of Beth's grandmother's old house.

Posing with the Post

Don't look for me in the photo. Beth didn't put me in her pocket when she went jogging with Scott.

She posed Scott (instead of me) by the post. She told him how she climbed that post when she was a little girl. 

Buddha

When they got up close to the rocky post, Beth and Scott noticed a treasure tucked into the rocks. The little Buddha smiled and so did they!

The tiny red Buddha was just about the same size as me. Beth guessed that the little girl who now lives in her grandmother's old house, placed it there. Beth said she was so frustrated that she didn't have me, to add to the photo.

December 9, 2023 

​3 months later, Beth was in Springfield again. This time she was with her sister. 

Beth and jenni, stopped the car to take a picture. Their smiles look sort of odd. 

​Beth didn't see the Buddha this time, but she pulled me from her bag and tucked me into the rocks.

Beth pointed to me for the camera and smiled, a not so smiley smile again.

Then Beth took a close-up picture of me. I didn't have much of a smile either.

None of us felt like smiling, because Beth and Jenni's dad had died earlier that morning. They said good-bye to their Dad and they said good-bye to the old post and they said good-bye Springfield.

​I reminded Beth, "Sometimes it's okay not to smile for photos."
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