I LOVE ART! All kinds of art fills our home and it always has. Back 50+ years ago I loved sculpture, wood working, literature, commercial printing, and of course music. There have been a lot of little detours, or as my friend Thomas J. Nelson, REALTOR ® CRS,ABR,PSA,RCS-D, ePRO says, "Rabbit Holes" I've gone down including welding and baking.
My sons art gallery is the second one I've set up and run. The first was in a little town of 500 and I was absolutely amazed and all the people who came in but that's another story.
The point of this post is that Art is a great and very personal gift. Art is not something you give just to anybody, but I say give it to someone you love. Someone you know well enough that you have studied the art work in their home or office. If a shelf in their office looks like this you might give them...
...a bird house.
My best Christmas gift ever was one I gave my mother back in 1973 when I was in technical school learning the trade of being a motorcycle mechanic. I lived in a little motel in a resort town with a roommate who I meet the same day we moved in for the school year. My dad gave me $20.00 a week to live on. The resort town had little tourist trap shops and I went from one to the other until I spotted the most beautiful sculpture I had ever seen. It was $40.00. I have no idea how I came up with the money but TRUE STORY: My roommate and I were starving after I bought the sculpture we shot the neighbors well fed squirrel and that and a box of saltines were what we ate for a week.
The sculpture is about 16" tall and made out of rosewood.
My Mom proudly displayed this piece of art in a prominent place in her home until she died. Fortunately for my my stepfather knew where it belonged and returned it to me upon her death. This was the greatest gift I gave and the best I've received (except for the art my children have blessed me with over the last 20+ years.
I was inspired to write this by the December 2024 ActiveRain Holiday Gift Challenge by Carol Williams
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