The FedEx Arrow

I needed to be reminded of this on this cold, "I feel like a grump and don't want to do 11 loads of laundry today" Monday.

Whatever comes our way today, may we find hidden things to celebrate!

=============================================================(Originally posted September 24th, 2007)

Have you ever noticed the hidden arrow in the FedEx logo? It's there - between the "E" and the "x" - in the negative white space. Once you see it, it will be the first thing your eyes are drawn to every time you see a FedEx truck.

The arrow isn't outlined. It isn't a different color. It's just there, in all of its understatedness - waiting to be found. It's easily missed. Unless you're looking for it!

I started thinking about my life in terms of this arrow. I began wondering: Are these "arrows" everywhere? Am I missing them? I want the hidden treasures in the everyday to become what my eyes are immediately drawn to. I want to revel in the Joy and Hilarity that are running around me as I'm buried under piles of laundry. I want to celebrate baby chub and acorns and flour spilled all over my kitchen.

Since spending time thinking about these arrows, I can tell you - they are everywhere! It's a splash of half-and-half instead of skim milk in my morning coffee. It's using our wedding china instead of our everyday dishes - for eating taco dip while watching Monday Night Football. It's discovering that cheerful shade of green playdoh that can only be made by smushing together the blue and the yellow.

Even more importantly, I want to purposefully hide these arrows all over my children's lives. I want to splash their memories with ice cream and lollipops and sprinklers. My hope for them is that they relive their childhood in vivid, sweet color - finding the arrows I've left for them.

I want them to find every single one of them!