As a kid Barb was always attracted by the ”Can You Draw Me” ads and would get out her pencil and try to duplicate the object featured. She still find herself doing that. Some project will get her attention and she’ll say, “I can do that”. That especially applies to her crafting talents – seeing the latest handmade project in stores and it becomes her next major project and once mastered she puts on workshops teaching others how to do it.
FRONT: The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. INSIDE: You are a treasured blossom in my garden!..
FRONT: Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith, then no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in the sense of sight. The Eternal Light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.—Francis Church 1897 INSIDE: How.....