Here is my 'Postage Stamp' for Creative Tuesdays. The loons are done on an index card in watercolour pencil. Thanks to Michael for always hosting. A letter to the U.S. really does cost $1.20 Canadian at this time. The Canadian one dollar coin is nicknamed the 'loonie' after the common loon also pictured here.
And Michael asked if I would make up a story about my ‘Gifting’ piece that I did for Creative Tuesdays the other day. I came up with this everyday life story, non-fiction:
The Gift of a Good Life
I woke up early the morning of my 27th wedding anniversary. For some reason the anniversary was my first thought. I said to husband M lying next to me ‘it’s our anniversary! So where is my gift?’. He says ‘oh, …I can get you one…’. I said ‘I’m just teasing!’. I really was.
The phone rang at around 9.30am. I thought, ‘oh no, not the duct cleaners again’. I noticed from the call display that it was a local number and decided to pick up. It was a gentleman asking for a donation to a charity. It was to support blind kids playing sports, apparently I had donated last year. The words ‘blind’ and ‘kids’ made me decide to give a donation. He thanked me and assured me that I would receive a tax receipt, even better.
As I hung up, I realized this was the perfect anniversary gift, a donation to a worthy cause, on behalf of M and myself.
Soon it was time to run my errands. It was a beautiful fall day, sunny and crisp, the leaves on the trees dappled with sunlight. I could just get away with wearing only a sweater, I didn’t need a coat.
On my way home later on, I noticed a wedding taking place on Main Street. The bride’s beautiful, lacy, white gown glittered in the sunlight and it looked like a happy party. A wedding on my anniversary, what a treat today I thought!
Daughter L came home with a lot of desserts from her company bake sale that evening. She had some little brownies, meringue cookies, gingersnaps, etc. Then we all went out to a nice dinner as a family.
It was certainly a day of ‘gifts’, maybe every day is, if you look hard enough. I am thankful for … not a perfect life, but a good one.
