Funny...but I have this stubborn memory that makes me smile..

It was those different color stars that my early teachers used to accentuate their comments on my work..

Everybody got them...each of us almost every time..

But they were different colors and sometimes even different sizes...

These were personal "gifts" along with their special comments about our work...The gifts were of encouragement..even if my work was less than they might expect...then it was a little green star...

But man,,,on those days when I "needed" a big blue star,,,I would work like heck,,and she would sometimes give me two...and a wonderfull..."Well Done Lenny,,I'm proud of you"..

Then that paper would hang off my desk.."accidentally" so that my other competitors would see just how much I was loved....

And of course the walk home had that extra skip or two as I had that full belly feeling of accomplishment that I could share with my MOM...

Somehow we should have found a way of keeping that star system throughout our lives...

To this day I believe my Higher Power has a little book of stars for Lenny and all of us and proudly puts one next to our name when we give Him that full belly feeling...

Lenny