Piano!
HUGE appreciation to Uncle Fred and Aunt Carolyn for this incredible gift. HUGE HUGE thanks to Daddy for driving 6 hours each way to deliver it to my door. I've already started playing and am working on a piece (Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" - it was an old recital piece or there is NO WAY I'd be trying to play it now) to play for my old piano teacher when I visit her later this month! (Pumpkin loves to sit there while I play; isn't he cute?)
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The piano is positioned so that it's the first thing you see when you walk in the house. The clock on the top of the piano was a wedding gift from Aunt Carolyn to Lane and me. My piano teacher had one when I was growing up, and I always admired it. Years later, for my first wedding, my teacher remembered my admiration from all those years ago and gave a similar clock to me as a wedding gift. It later became damaged, and after I relayed this story to my mom and aunt, years later, when Lane and I got married, my aunt gave me a matching clock. So when I set it on the piano, it has such special meaning, as a gift from both my teacher and from my aunt, and also as a symbol of the thoughtfulness of the two of them, remembering after so much time how much I loved that clock.
(Actually, just so I can tell you, from left to right, on the piano is the following: a decopauge prayer of Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi done by my paternal grandmother -
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is discord, harmony;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light, and
Where there is sorrow, joy.
Oh Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
....then the clock, then a music box my friend Jill gave me years ago, then a set of porcelain swans, one that I bought, one that my mom bought, and one that belonged to my maternal grandmother. Mom's swan sits on top of a mirror that belonged to my paternal great-grandmother with a thimble that belonged to my paternal grandmother. The lamp with the roses belonged to my maternal grandmother, and the painting on the wall was done by my mom.)
I am very excited about how much the piano makes the house feel like a home. I am determined to practice for at least one hour every day until I'm back to playing the way I did when I graduated High School. I'll let you know how it's going!
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