The Weekly Smile for September 23, 2019 #weeklysmile

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Today is the official start of Autumn. Seems odd since the temperature will almost reach 90 F/ 32 C.

A friend of mine in town threw a surprise birthday part for her boyfriend yesterday. They both have adult children, so the kids were all there. He had been a firefighter in NYC, so some of his NYC friends came up for the event. A lot of people from the neighborhood showed up. It was a good crowd.

I am a complete and total Introvert and have a hard time at parties if I don’t know many people, but it was still fun. It was also nice to see how touched he was that everyone came by.

That was my smile for the week, attending a surprise birthday party.

What made you smile?

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Come on, I’m sure you smiled at least once last week. Why don’t you share it? I hope you can join in!

Here is list of “rules” and guiding ideas. If you don’t have time to read it right now, just remember that this is an exercise to spread positivity. Don’t smile about the misfortune of others. Don’t smile in a way to excludes others. Make sure a 12 year old can read it.

And remember, the Smile can be anything, large or small. Nothing, nothing at all is too small for a Smile! Sometimes taking time to notice those small, every day smiles is more important than those once in a lifetime huge ones :)

To join in, write a post to share your smile and then leave a comment on this post with a link to your smile. Or, if you prefer, do a pingback to this post (pingback = have a link from your post to this one) (Note – pingbacks have been very inconsistent – please leave a comment :) ). You can post any time until next Sunday evening (to be simple, I will say midnight GMT, which is 7 PM Sunday for me). Next week I will compile all of the Smiles and do a separate post of them on Monday morning just before the smile. (I will shoot for around 7 AM EST).

Try to use the hashtag #WeeklySmile when you use Twitter or other social media that uses hashtags. I searched Twitter and found that #weeklysmile had been used only a handful of times back in 2012 and 2013. It hasn’t been used since. So it’s ours! I also registered it on Twubs.

You can use the graphic at the top. It is the official graphic for the event.

Now go out there and find something to smile about! :)