Can you imagine? It’s already time for me to start thinking Christmas thoughts. I’m heading to New York in a couple of days for the annual Holiday Gift Show. This is a show in which various members of the media are looking for gifts to highlight in their magazines, or on their TV shows. You know “Best Gifts for This Year’s Holidays” sort of thing. Gosh, I’m not even through with Mother’s Day/Father’s Day yet – our other major “Holiday Season”.
Over the years/decades, I’ve given a lot of gifts, and it’s interesting that I can only remember a small handful of particularly meaningful gifts. The best gift I ever gave was to my Dad – a jacket from the Vanguard Drum & Bugle Corps, with whom he had been affiliated some 25 years before. He had fond memories of the corps, and that gift told him that his son remembers and cares.
What gifts have you given family members that really showed that you care deeply for them? I don’t mean a necktie or another pretty blouse. Those things are nice, sure. But, I’m talking about the things with special meaning which touched their soul, and told them you care about who they are. I’d love to hear about your best gifts, … given or received.
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