Whenever someone stops by to visit and for one reason or another finds their way to our bathroom they predictably comment on the abundance of rubber ducks in and around the bathtub. Our little yellow and orange figures did not migrate to tubside on their own. We have gathered them up to form an impromptu flock that greets all bathers. Often, I have been asked why we collect rubber ducks. The answer is really quite simple.
Rubber ducks are attitude adjusters of the highest magnitude.
Within these little rubber bodies lies the power to soften up the toughest grouch, grump or otherwise bummed out individual. The world would undoubtedly be a better place if each and everyone of us had a rubber duck somewhere in our life. When everything seems to be going badly just take a moment to remember what it felt like to be a child again and in that moment make yourself a promise not to take life too seriously.