A few years ago, a young woman came up to me in a grocery store. She identified herself as a childhood friend of my daughter.
“I recall,” she said smilingly, “You showed me how to pat bumblebees when they are busy at work on a flower. I taught this to my daughter. She finds this delightful.”
Then we talked a bit. She told me about her home business, and we exchanged a few other mundane details – such as goes a conversation between strangers.
I was cheerier after that. How nice of this woman to thank me of this small gesture I taught her. I learned from her how we pass on to others the pleasure of seemingly trivial actions that we enjoy. Such as patting bumblebees, skipping stones, counting train wagons.