| Preservationist's Spirit Barn Sterling Silver and Copper |
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| The recipient's response:"I'm sitting on my front porch--it's one of the first nights that you can sit outside befo re dusk and feel a bit of an autumn chill in the night air. My dad is reading the paper on the front steps, my mom is chattering about who was with whom and who had put on weight, etc., at yesterday's Labor Day picnic while cross stitching in her wooden rocking chair. I'm laying in the porch swing, one leg thrown across the back of the swing, the other is rocking the swing periodically by pushing off the banister railing. I am writing you. I don't know how to thank you for the gift you gave me - a mere "thanks" doesn't do my heart justice. "My thank you is in the description above - you gave me a memory. Every time I look at and wear and describe my Spirit Barn, I am reminded of this moment - this millisecond in time - where the world is right. I can close my eyes, rub the edge of the Barn roof, and remember these earthy smells, the sound of the crickets and the hay baler in the distance, the breeze that ruffles my hair. . . So, my most sincerest thank you to you. Ya'll have given me the gift of a memory, and a tangible reminder of what I'm working for." |
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