About a gift
Sep. 7th, 2008 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbYesterday I got a package through the mail. It was from an English-speaking country that has some claim to being the oldest member of the British Empire, and from a lady I knew. I opened the package, and out came... at first, it looked like a book. Then I realized that it was, in fact, a large notebook, hand made by the sender, and decorated with copies of my own artwork taken from the Net.
Isn't it true that, while gifts are beloved from anyone, hand-made gifts are especially affecting and touching? My problem now is that I do not know how to properly honour the gift. To use it as an ordinary notebook would cheapen it. I keep on thinking that the best use would to make fair copies of all my writings that I value most; that would take a lot of time and work, but it is the only way I can think of to come up to the effort and work of the giver.
Thank you very much, dear friend.
Isn't it true that, while gifts are beloved from anyone, hand-made gifts are especially affecting and touching? My problem now is that I do not know how to properly honour the gift. To use it as an ordinary notebook would cheapen it. I keep on thinking that the best use would to make fair copies of all my writings that I value most; that would take a lot of time and work, but it is the only way I can think of to come up to the effort and work of the giver.
Thank you very much, dear friend.
