I would love to have nothing but old furniture in my house - Maybe some day. I like seeing the years in the wood!! Thanks for sharing - stop by and see my PhotoHunt!!
Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
13 comments:
What a warm and interesting take on the theme! I love old furniture, too. I just wish I had the space to take in every piece that speaks to me!
Have a great weekend, and do stop by if you get the chance!
That gives the leg some "character" :) Nice one, Marcia :)
That's a beautiful old chipped piece. Happy weekend.
Great shot, it really does have character. Happy weekend
I have just the same feeling. Vintage and old furniture get character.
Oh you'd love my house, lol! Full of chipped stuff!!! ;) Great photo.
I did Photo Hunters today, too. I hope you get a chance to visit.
http://newyorktraveler.net/photo-hunters-chipped/
There's a lot of history in that leg. Distressed furniture always has a story but we don't always know what it is. Great photo.
Stop by and see my photo hunt if you have a chance.
JyLnC's Chipped
thats pretty neat shot! =)
I would love to have nothing but old furniture in my house - Maybe some day. I like seeing the years in the wood!! Thanks for sharing - stop by and see my PhotoHunt!!
nice angle of the table leg.
Boy, you should come and visit me. I have so much "chipped" furniture. You would love it.
Beside that, it would be so much fun to see you.
There must be a great family history behind this chipped furniture.
That is a beautiful photo on the theme! Very nice! :)
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