Life lived with purpose: My Legacy
Legacy
It’s a well-used oblong velvet pin cushion; a fabric square faded nearly the color of dried blood slipped over an unknown form. Wrapped four times about the middle is a stretched out strip of elastic stuck in place by a white-headed pin. Several large hat pins secure faintly shiny leaf-shaped sequins from a forgotten project. A small wooden spool of Coats & Clark’s (Textured Nylon, price: 15 cents) is dropped over the remaining pearl-headed hatpin.
It always sat on my grandmother’s dresser. A sweet, calm, centered, hard-working farm wife during the Depression, she lived her life with purpose. My legacy.
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Welcome & well done for finding us! This is lovely. So ‘solid’ somehow just like that generation!
BTW – the posts only appear on the front when I’ve been able to transfer them. I was watching a football match yesterday on the other side of the country!
No problem, I just wanted to be sure I hadn’t dorked something up, I figured it needed administrative voodoo.
And thank you for your kind words!
Nicely done, and a nice photograph too. Coats & Clarks took me back. I don’t know who makes all the cotton reels that lie in my hardly used sewing box, but I expect I’d find one or two of those.
Thank you! My first attempt, I really enjoyed the exercise. I’m new to all this, just started blogging January 1st after bowing to pressure by some friends.
I remember sewing many of my school clothes, and sundresses for my daughter when she was little, always getting Coats & Clarks because my mother insisted it was best. I also remember Grandma and my mother darning socks. It always rubbed my toe where they were darned! 😉
Why don’t you take a look at Friday Fictioneers and Five sentence Fiction too.
excellent, thanks!
Oh how lovely, your words and the photos too. I had already pictured it clearly and there it was 🙂
thank you so much!