Comments on: A gift gone wrong… http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:42:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: suburbanlife http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-241 suburbanlife Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:32:56 +0000 http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-241 Thanks for visiting and providing your variation on the "gifting" idea. Ouch! Yours is particularly poignant - well, the inability to predict just what will happen sure makes life an adventure, eh? Thanks for visiting and providing your variation on the “gifting” idea. Ouch! Yours is particularly poignant – well, the inability to predict just what will happen sure makes life an adventure, eh?

]]> By: lookingforbeauty http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-239 lookingforbeauty Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:47:45 +0000 http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-239 How difficult it is to find the right gift! Once I helped my aging mother to find a gift for her life long friend's 80th birthday by bringing some art books home for her to choose one - there was a coffee table size book on the Renaissance which her friend was studying at University under the "free learning for seniors" program. I also brought a Karsh book of portraits and one book of my own that I had at home already, the catalogue raisonné of Van Gogh, that had not yet been opened, I not having much time to read. She returned the Karsh and the Renaissance books to me and I returned them to the store. The VanGogh, she said she would still like to consider. She was mobile at that time and ended up going over to the mall and finding a Freeman Patterson book on Light. I never got the Van Gogh book under consideration back. Six months later, on my birthday, I found a wrapped gift at my place mat at the dinner table. When I opened it up, it was my own Van Gogh book! She looked so pleased at having found a gift so appropriate for me that I could not tell her she had simply given my own book back! Thanks for your stories. They are so evocative of our family experiences. You bring them to life - the joys, the disappointments, the bittersweet laughter in it all. Kay How difficult it is to find the right gift!
Once I helped my aging mother to find a gift for her life long friend’s 80th birthday by bringing some art books home for her to choose one – there was a coffee table size book on the Renaissance which her friend was studying at University under the “free learning for seniors” program. I also brought a Karsh book of portraits and one book of my own that I had at home already, the catalogue raisonné of Van Gogh, that had not yet been opened, I not having much time to read.
She returned the Karsh and the Renaissance books to me and I returned them to the store. The VanGogh, she said she would still like to consider.

She was mobile at that time and ended up going over to the mall and finding a Freeman Patterson book on Light. I never got the Van Gogh book under consideration back.
Six months later, on my birthday, I found a wrapped gift at my place mat at the dinner table.
When I opened it up, it was my own Van Gogh book! She looked so pleased at having found a gift so appropriate for me that I could not tell her she had simply given my own book back!
Thanks for your stories. They are so evocative of our family experiences. You bring them to life – the joys, the disappointments, the bittersweet laughter in it all.
Kay

]]> By: suburbanlife http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-228 suburbanlife Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:26:35 +0000 http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-228 Nita; Deborah - thank you both for your encouragement and your generous comments. If I ever come across as sanctimonious - send me a well-deserved verbal slap! :-) G Nita; Deborah – thank you both for your encouragement and your generous comments. If I ever come across as sanctimonious – send me a well-deserved verbal slap! :-) G

]]> By: Deborah Barlow http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-226 Deborah Barlow Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:53:35 +0000 http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-226 You are a gifted story teller. A leitmotif of generosity and patience is underneath your narrative style, a melody that recenters me over and over again. You are a gifted story teller. A leitmotif of generosity and patience is underneath your narrative style, a melody that recenters me over and over again.

]]> By: Nita http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-224 Nita Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:54:41 +0000 http://suburbanlife.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/a-gift-gone-wrong/#comment-224 The way you write always touches my heart. I think you should write short stories and use experiences from real life. The way you have shown the relationship with your mother using real incidents is very evocative. The way you write always touches my heart. I think you should write short stories and use experiences from real life. The way you have shown the relationship with your mother using real incidents is very evocative.

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