One of the oddities of life is that the value of an item is often determined by circumstances, rather than the item itself. A baseball, for example, is worth a few dollars unless it happens to be a baseball that Babe Ruth signed.

Take, for example, the dandelion. In one’s yard, they are considered weeds. There are dozens of treatments available at your local garden center for the prevention and removal of dandelions. Some people spend hundreds, even thousands, of dollars removing these pesky yellow flowers.  But let those dandelions be presented to you by a little child and suddenly they become a rare gift. More precious than the rarest rose. I have been given many bouquets of flowers over the years but the ones that are most precious have been the ones picked from the yard by the hands of my loving children.