Today.
\nAfter school, we slam on the brakes at the little market with the kids.
\nWe\u2019re buying fruits and vegetables.
\nWe park the car a bit away and walk toward the smiling ladies offering their goods.<\/p>\n
I love shopping at small markets.
\nI get such a good feeling along with the basket of goodies.
\nFrom one\u2014berries.
\nFrom another\u2014lettuce.
\nFrom a third\u2014cucumbers.
\nAnd I think\u2014almost done, we\u2019ve \u201cvisited\u201d them all.<\/p>\n
Finally, all three of us, with our vitamin-filled baskets, head back to the car.
\nWe get in and start driving home:
\n\u201cMom,\u201d says Do, \u201cyou bought something from every lady\u2019s stand. But from one, the oldest one, standing out in the sun and wind. You didn\u2019t even sit on a chair\u2014didn\u2019t take anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stop.
\nTruth is, I was so busy chatting with the ladies that I barely noticed the one \u201cout in the sun and wind without a chair.\u201d
\nMy heart tightens.
\nWe turn around, and all three of us march back to the market.<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly.\u201d
\nNext to the loud, bustling ladies,
\nwithout a sun-and-wind canopy,
\nwithout a chair to sit on\u2014stands an old man.
\nAs we learn while talking, he\u2019s a very elderly beekeeper, selling honey collected by his bees.<\/p>\n
We buy it.
\nAnd with an elephant-sized feeling of goodness, we head back home for real this time.
\nAt home, we all grab a cucumber and dip it in the honey.
\nAccording to Dominykas\u2014it\u2019s the most delicious he\u2019s ever tasted.
\nSweet for everyone.
\nAnd for me, who usually doesn\u2019t like honey, it\u2019s sweet twice over.
\nI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the taste or the feeling\u2014
\nthat I get to raise someone with such a big heart.<\/p>\n
Kiss the little ones with big hearts.
\nSometimes we, adults, have a lot to learn from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-17730","istorija","type-istorija","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istorija\/17730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/istorija"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/istorija"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viktorijos.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}