This illuminated letter represents my daughter Rebecca’s first Christmas in 1989. What kind of a history does this describe? That there once was a mother who commemorated her child’s first Christmas by making a special ornament. She decorated a tree with it every year for 20 years. The child grew up, her father died, and she moved away from home. The mother stopped celebrating Christmas, but she gave her daughter the special ornament to keep. Soon the daughter had her own house and her own Christmas tree. She decorated the tree and invited her mother to come celebrate with her. Her mother was pleased to see the ornament hanging in just the right place, so she took a picture of it. The End.
Cool post! 🙂
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Thanks! Yours, too! I thought that your photo might have been from Salzburg. I’ve been there, but not to Bratislava.
Yeah, I was surprised myself stumbling upon this in Bratislava. I never even knew he had visited there. 🙂 As you say, one would expect commemorating plaques of Mozart mainly in Salzburg, Vienna and Prague. 🙂
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Hi Scilla,
These things are symbols and, unlike letters and words in a common language, they have different meanings for different people. Often it’s just a trigger to recalling a certain family story (a little girl was born and loved…), which is another way of remembering who we are and where we came from. Just for fun, we keep a two foot tall skeleton in our coat closet. But it is also a frequent reminder not to take ourselves too seriously, and a symbol of the many stories we have that make us who we are. Those stories often find their way out of the closet!
Thank you again for another thoughtful and thought-provoking post.
Thanks for your comment, Naomi, and for your confession of skeletons in your closet! 🙂 (I bet you have a lot more fun stuff in there…costumes, props, etc. I’d love to take a peek!)
We’ve been getting or making ornaments for the girls since they were babies. When they’re ready to be out on their own for Christmas, they’ll have lots of lovely ornaments and memories to take with them. I think that makes it even more special.
janet
My daughter made me a couple of ornaments that year, too, with the beads she uses for making jewelry. They hang from my light fixture year ’round. 🙂
What a lovely story of R
Thanks! and she’s a lovely person. 🙂
And that speaks how lovely of mother you are. 😀
Aw! How kind of you. 🙂
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This makes me think of my own meandering in the Hebrew Aleph Beit and how meaningful each letter is. The fact that your daughter displayed her ornament gave me goose bumps. Touching.
I do like symbolism; it’s very like poetry. 🙂