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Describe your memories of a piece of furniture from your childhood.
What piece of furniture from your childhood can still bring a smile to your face today when you think of it? I grew up around LOTS of antiques. Furniture and more. We were constantly taught by my grandparents to be careful of every heirloom and learned a reverence of sorts for each piece we passed. There were so many pieces that I was intrigued with as a kid but none more than a set of children’s chairs. These flanked my grandparent’s fireplace in the main salon. (I went online to see if I could find a picture and this is the closest I could come up with. ) According to…
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Complete this thought, “Today, I hope….”
hope [hōp] NOUN VERB What is it that you hope for today? Simply? I hope that those I love are happy, stay healthy, and realize how very much I care for them. Today I hope that we as a world can start to re-learn kindness. Kindness to the stranger, kindness to each other, kindness to our family and friends, kindness to ourselves. Kindness to people we will never meet or know….kindness to the world. Kindness to the Earth. Though we were not brought up in a religious home, we were taught The Golden Rule. I honestly had no idea that it was a religion-based tenet until I was an adult,…
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What is your first experience with death that you remember?
Do you have a memory of the first ever death you experienced? We would love to have you share. While I do remember my grandmother’s funeral, I did not process that as a death. We really saw very little of her growing up, and when we did see her, she was very standoffish, we had no relationship. She was of the mindset that children should be seen (sometimes) and not heard, so as sad as her death was to my dad, it really didn’t touch my life in ways that resound in my memory. However, a close friend of mine had a grandmother who lived in the same town…