I know - weird title for a post. Let me 'splain... In the church I spent the early portion of my life attending, there is a strong push to send young men out into the world to spread The Gospel for a couple of years. When they are nearing the end of their mission, they tend to develop a syndrome of missing home and being half-packed to go there - "trunky".
One of the challenges for the Virtual Stamp Night this past weekend was hosted by Brenda (aka tessaduck), and she wanted us to incorporate a precious memory into a card. Memories are very important to her, as she lost her mother to Alzheimer's and, for the eight years prior to her passing, the long-ago memories were shared over and over, although the recent ones were gone.
I lost my father to Alzhiemer's, so I could totally relate. Making the card reminded me of so many things about him, and memories of family times with him. Because of his love of the sea, many of the memories center around beach-y pursuits. Today I am missing both my father and the sea... I'm "trunky" - not so much for a physical place, but for a space in time...
The image on my card is a photocopy of a drawing I made for my father when I was eleven. After his passing we were cleaning out his desk, and found the drawing still under the glass on a pull-out writing shelf. It had been there for over four decades... I loved my father, and I knew that he loved me, but there were many times that I struggled to relate to him as closely as I longed to. Finding this scrap of my childhood that he apparently treasured reinforced his love and care for me on a very profound personal level.
The sentiment (from Stampendous) pretty much sums up how we both felt about the sea, I'm sure. Often he would come home from work, load us all into the station wagon, and we'd drive down to the beach to watch the sun set, roast hot dogs, and go for ice cream cones at Swenson's. The cares of the day were definitely forgotten...
And that's my story and my creative output for now. I hope that you have treasured memories a-plenty, and that there is much sweetness in remembering them! Thank you for stopping by my corner of Blogland...
Isn't it grand when we discover something from our past that makes the memories even sweeter! What talent you had at a tender age too. Thanks for sharing this wonderful card.
Posted by: Lu C | March 10, 2015 at 05:19 PM