Remembering...

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Added: Tue. Sep 01, 2009 10:10pm
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My parents lived through the depression and survived because of the many skills they had...and luck...and providence.

My parents passed on those skills to us, their children...I find myself grateful lately...I'm sure I've been grateful before, but I am again.  It's a gift that continues to give.

I have begun canning and pickling things for the winter.  I haven't done that in years.  It gives me a great sense of satisfaction and even a sense of feeling safe to see the shelves fill up with a variety of things that I created.

And Christmas gifts for the last several years have been sewing projects or craft projects.  Things from the heart.....nothing special...just a little something.

We all have so much.....stuff....that's what it is.  It feels good to create, rather than buy.  A little of me is passed on to them.

Is anyone teaching these skills anymore?  Bread making without a breadmaker? Sewing...sewing by hand?  Canning and pickling?  How about painting an old table so that it is new again...recycled?  Such a throw-away world? 

If you hang on to things, they label you a "hoarder".  I've seen the footage on the news of the "hoarders".  I don't think making something old new again is that.

My home is full of old and new.  It's exactly what I need and want.  That stuff reminds me of those lessons.  And I am grateful.