message in a bottle/box

looking for comfortable summer shoes (think: feels like a tennis shoe, looks like you actually have taste and are not wearing gym clothes on the bottom with a dress on top), i found something much better at the checkout stand.

like fortune cookie wisdom, i'll take it anywhere it appears.

here it was, perfectly synthesizing a complex yet simple philosophy, a four-word instruction manual for living & what i've been realizing & practicing.

when i smiled & jumped at recognition, i found out this little message in a box is a rarely unwrapped gift, as the salespeople had never noticed it.

to receive a message, you have to have an mailbox. and check it frequently. so as not to miss the (only at first apparently banal) boxes that arrive in your inbox.