Saturday, March 3, 2012

Another perspective. (Footnotes) (column)

Another Perspective

During the December holidays, every square inch of my mother's home is filled with symbols of the season. This year we even had paper towels printed with green wreaths and red letters in the kitchen.

For all of December, these towels drove me crazy. The message printed on them was

At least once a day I would stop and ponder the message of those letters. Rest on Peace? Or did it say hop? But hop is an Easter word, not a Christmas one.

On New Year's Eve, driven to complete frustration and confusion by this mystery, I picked the towels up and in doing so turned the message upside down. Ah! Joy!

Sometimes when you are …

No comments:

Post a Comment