Postal Presents

I got the nicest package in the mail today. I love getting packages in the mail, perhaps which is why I also like to send them. In my daily travels I will run across something that I think a friend of mine would like, and pick it up. When I get a collection of stuff, I mail it out. The package I got today was so special.

Denise sent me a package. Included in the package was a home made Christmas card and some delightful book marks. Also a Coffee Queen Tiara (you have to see it to appreciate it), some super charged coffee and some yummy smelling soap. She also included some tasty treats including her absolutely incredible gingersnap/molasses cookie and some candies. She sent black walnut chips, and I don't know if she knew this, but they were my grandfather's favorite. I am sure she picked them up at the candy store in Bay City, and I wonder if I had mentioned them and their significance when we visited this shop together. You see, Denise is the kind of person who would remember a little thing like that.

The most amazing thing in the box; this package of treasures she put together thinking of me, was Isabelle's ashes. The fact that Denise would share with me the remains of her dear friend (an English Bull Mastiff) touched me so. Denise loved Isabelle and they went through so much together. Many changes, challenges and life events were shared by these friends, and the fact that Denise would honor me with some of Isabelle's remains touched me in a way that I can not put to words. I cried, not for Isabelle and her passing; all those tears have been shed for me, but I cried for the honor of being entrusted with my dear friends memories.

So, all the goodies and fun things this package contained were great, but the love that Denise sent me in a little wooden heart shaped box can never be topped.