I’ve been playing a lot of video games – as I may have mentioned – while I’ve been on break, but I’ve also been doing a little work around the house. Mostly organizing – I’ve seen too many episodes of Hoarders to be complacent in my basement.<\/p>\n
Hmmm… that would make a good name for a band – “Complacent in the Basement”<\/p>\n
Anyway, I came across a box of things that had been moved along with me for years, but rarely opened or gone through. One of the items was a tiny box – maybe two inches by three – made of wood with a hinged lid.<\/p>\n
The box is empty except for a note taped to the inside of the lid.<\/p>\n
“Wade, I hope you find this little cedar chest as handy as I have for keepsakes & what nots in your room. I’m sure you have seen it many times, and I would like you to have it in your room for keepsakes too. Love, Grandma Minnie,”
\nMinnie was my great-grandmother on my Dad’s side. She lived in a small house that shared a backyard with the old farm-house where we used to live when I was a kid.<\/p>\n
Minnie was sweet and kind – always glad to see my sister and I in the yard or over at her house for fried apples and Barry Manilow on her record player. She kept a beautiful garden and we would find her there throughout the spring and summer.<\/p>\n
I don’t remember exactly when she gave me this box, but I can hear her voice when I read the note she tucked inside it.<\/p>\n
So, as I get ready to start off a new year, I think back a little to the sweet lady who was such a fixture in my life when I was very small.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Grandma Minnie, for this empty little box.<\/p>\n
Full of memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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