Smile with Your Eyes

Spiritual Practices for Resilience

In my family, we played a game where we would hold napkins over our noses and mouths, so you could only see the eyes, and ask each other to guess what faces we were making underneath. Some of us mastered the art of smiling with the mouth and not letting it spread to the eyes, to throw people off. Other times, the crinkle of the eye would sneak in - that…