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the three large shallow scrap baskets….emptied into one of the deep baskets.    To see them,  naked, scrapless…to see their beauty.

 

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in my next life…a basket maker.

 

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and guess who this is????

FATE!

who loves Hats.  Fate.  How can it be?  but it IS.  Emrie's cousin.  His Father,  my grandson Jeff,  who was a late bloomer , and  almost didn't,    is BLOOMING!.  He is an Excellent and LOVING father and so Happy to be that.  He graduates from electrician's school next month.  Has his Journeyman's card.  A job lined up,   This son we see here.  It could not be more for them.  I am so proud of my daughter,  his mother,  for refusing to give up.  He blooms.  Happy Father's Day,  Jeff.

And my own son,  who father's  his daughter Giana with total and complete joy.  Like,  Joy.  He feels

Joy.

 

so…father's in my own experience,  not so much.  But fathers in this and this third generation,  WAY MORE than anything that could have been hoped,  or even imagined.

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  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    How fine. Fate was fated to be.
    Really cute.

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  2. jude Avatar

    gee, time is passing.

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((grace))) such beautiful baskets! a good friend wove baskets for ballooning back in the 70’s & wove me the best bespoke flower basket ever, I bought two big bundles of rattan cane from him with the intention of becoming a weaver but sold them to make ends meet in a desperate year (the same year I burned my driftwood collection for heating)

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  4. beth Avatar

    From such a tenuous start… Thank you for sharing the joy.

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  5. judy martin Avatar

    Mo – you need to write a book about your personal journey – all the struggles and fairy crowns
    x

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  6. judy martin Avatar

    Grace, thank you for showing the cross at the bottom of the circle basket.
    And I really agree with you about this new generation of fathers. Are they not wonderful?
    xo

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  7. Martine Bos Avatar

    As i thougt about family they always where older the I but suddenly……just like you, they’re younger……..

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  8. Carolyn Petersen Avatar
    Carolyn Petersen

    So happy for Jeff. My cousins son, Tom quit collage and drifted for awhile. Then he went to H and C school, loved it. There are many people who are so much happier working with their hands. Making a good living also.

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  9. grace Avatar

    he is a BeautyFULL child…all full of Life and himSelf with a
    Father who loves hm so

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  10. grace Avatar

    it is…who would have thought…that infant that looked like
    a ladybug…a boy, who loves Hats and is learning the english language

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  11. grace Avatar

    i love those desperate years so much

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  12. grace Avatar

    no longer tenuous. nothing tenuous about it. a story of
    Just Going

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  13. grace Avatar

    these Fathers…they are, in the midst of so much that is difficult, the fathers are so much There and have so much Love

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  14. grace Avatar

    everyone is younger, some not even born…isn’t it just
    Amazing????, like brilliantly amazing ????and in this skewed
    and frightening world, they come
    they come and come….

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  15. grace Avatar

    we are learning…if we take the time to, we are learning
    what it means to “make a living”. Yes….learning things
    to Give, that are needed and by doing so, being able to live
    a life. How simple that equation.
    Love to you….

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