“Such form! This level of coloring! Why I haven’t seen such perfection in Crayola in a long time. And what is this? Why Jeff, now this is a true risk…it seems she’s made…a monochrome pink canvas…I haven’t seen this attempted since winter 1932…and I gotta say, Jeff, it’s absolutely splendid.”
Each time Raquel performed the bit, her creative little artist friend would “fall back giggling.”
“At the end of every night, she’d check with me: ‘did you really like it?’ And I’d say yes and talk about something I noticed and tucked her in.”
It’s been about 12 years, and Raquel received news about the little girl:
“She was just accepted into 3 major art schools. She wrote me a letter. Inside was a picture from when she was younger, monochrome pink.
‘Thank you,’ it said, ‘to somebody who saw the best in me.’”
Raquel’s story just goes to show, you never know just how much your words and actions might mean to someone else. May it inspire you to go out of your way for someone in your life today.
