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Yesterday I returned a glass jar, with beautiful wicker braiding and a little wire handle, to my neighbor. A couple of weeks prior, after I'd returned from the hospital, she left the jar on my doorstep filled to the brim with flowers.
After removing the flowers and spreading the drying rose petals in my big potpourri basket, I filled the jar with wrapped chocolates and added the card pictured here.
Then I couldn't get this picture out of my mind.
I am feeling so very grateful for friends and family and my entire life. Some of it hard. Some of it life changing for myself and others. Some of it scary, but worth it.
This card was made from one of my husband, David's, paintings. After years of hard, but meaningful work, we traveled all over Europe. I remember this street. I remember having lunch at one of those outside tables. I remember David telling me that he and his first wife, Audrey, walked down the same street. I don't remember what country we were in.
David signed all of his paintings. Sometimes the signature is hard to find. In this one, it's on the menu. "Runyan 2016."
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