Thursday, January 4, 2024

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~ Arthur Rubinstein

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racheld said...

Oh, Val!!! I think of you so often, in your welcoming cozy home and life so VAL in every touch. I imagine the soft prints of the curtains and the colors, and sometimes when I see a young woman in a blouse or coat of VAL GREEN, or a beautiful headful of dark curls---I think of how you just dropped out of the air with your sweet presence, and soften the days and enrich the lives of so many of us out here in this wordosphere. Time and circumstances have curtailed my participation in a lot of things for a few years, and we still stay close to home, going out gloved and masked and making sure the list has everything, so the once-a-week little shop-journeys will suffice.

I even forgot how to post on LAWN TEA for a great while, besides feeling the arid touch of dust in the Word Well, but now, reminiscences and events and characters and stories are finally emerging again, and perhaps there will be something of interest to post more often. Some of those times ago, I'd just dial from blog to blog, soaking in all the other folks' activities and events and sorrows and delights, and just have no words to say hello. I wept with you over Stuffed, rejoiced and then wept more over Cubby Cat, and have found more hearts by accident than should be possible.

How fortunate would be the day that you could sit down amongst the pinks and florals and twinkle-lights of our little house, and we'd talk the day away over tea, or solve the problems of this needy world while we chat. I've dreamt of having a seat at your patchwork-covered table, amongst all your ginghams and portraits and jonquils in a jar, that home so warm and cushioned and insulated with sheer charm and good will, and a mind the equal of a Jane Austen and the cozy comfort of a Gladys Taber.

I think I'll come and drop this note to you in your mailbox, and you'll know my regard and interest and liking for your words has never faltered in this grasping for my own. It's so wonderful to see you and hear from you, and I wish you well and warm all these cold days to come, and sunshine on your tablecloth for your tea.

You brought a fond reminder of the Sunday Morning decades ago that I played hookey from church (a warm and wonderful little Southern Baptist congregation, but quick to remind me that I missed the morning at the piano---not grumpy, but just a gentle chide from several quarters, to witness Arthur Rubinstein's concert---live from somewhere in Europe, and it was just too tempting to resist).

And I never do NOT aspire to be the you that you described as being open to anyone's words and stories and backgrounds and fears and tears---that's me, and if ever I were to plagiarize a post from another's blog---that could be my update Desiderata, embroidered in a frame. And that's what absolutely BEAMS from you, and why everyone wants to be a Pal of Val.

January 04, 2024
La Table De Nana said...

:) A tough act to follow Rachel;););)
Hi Val..Happy New Year..xo

January 04, 2024
Nellie said...

Great to read a post from you! Happy New Year to you! - xoxo

January 04, 2024
Val said...

Ohhhhhh, Rachel. What can I even say? ♥ :) Thank you, and hello! My emails have bounced back, but I'll try again. I think we've had a (sadly) similar past few years. We need to catch up. xoxo♥

Thank you, Monique and Nellie! :) ♥ Happy new year!

January 06, 2024
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