E is for Exuberance

When I finally settled on a theme for this year's A-Z, and began looking through my brown paper bag, I came across this picture and knew it would make the cut.

This picture is everything I love about childhood.

Oh to be not quite twelve.

All long legs and elbows.

Blonde hair kissed by the summer sun.

Little girl laughter that bubbles up and over, impossible to contain.

The salty sea air calls your name and you answer.

Arms wide open to the world.

The sense that anything is possible.

To feel in a single moment that life is perfect.

Because in that moment, it is.

Exuberance.