My Mary Jane Dansko’s broke again last week. The strap snapped off leaving my favorite all time wonderful shoe hopeless and unusable. This happened a few years ago and I was able to find a man in Palmer that fixed them but now I have lost track of him. I searched in Anchorage and found a little shoe repair shop owned by an Oriental man who took my Mary Jane’s in without saying much and gave them a second chance at life. Today I picked them up and for just ten dollars my dreamy Dansko’s were in working, happy order once again. Ten dollars I pondered. That was such a small trivial amount to make something so perfect and wonderful again. I ought to think of that each day. it doesn’t take much to change a saddened heart or to pick up one’s spirits. Ten dollars buys a small bouquet of fresh flowers that can brighten up a home and heal a soul that hurts. A smile, phone call or notecard is free. Something small always seems to bring the big.
Tara Truly 