One-Eyed Reindeer Silhouette

There are shuttles that run from the hotel out to the hospitals of the Houston Medical Center. For several days I'd noticed this ornament hanging in one of the vans - the one used by my favorite driver. So when I was sitting up front on Sunday, I asked him where the one-eyed reindeer ornament had come from.

He told me they had a guest who had stayed at the hotel for several months while undergoing treatment for cancer at MD Anderson, and of course he drove her to and from quite a lot. She'd been there around the holidays and had made these ornaments for the staff at the hotel. So he'd hung his in the van. And now, whenever she came back for follow-up visits she'd get in the van and smile at the ornament still hanging there. He said he knows it's kinda beat up now, and the antlers need to be fixed a little, but it made him happy to see it and especially because whenever she comes back its hanging there will make her smile.

It truly is the little things in life that bring such gladness to the heart & spirit.