That door saw it all; the comings & goings... the busyness and the boredom... the joy and the sorrow. It was there for the get togethers, the conversation & laughter ... it hung around for the hum-drum times, too. It silently celebrated the exhilarating victories and the disappointments of defeat. It got pushed, slammed, dinged, banged... without complaint, but the time had come to let it go. It had served it's time, done it's job and deserved to retire.
A few weeks after it's replacement, I was outside in the yard and I saw it there - all of it... on the wood pile! - slaughtered into bite size pieces!! - waiting to be tossed into the fire pit!!!... and I got the sense that after all that growing, reaching, striving and wishing it had been privy to over the years, well, it still needed to be...
The piece of door I grabbed off the pile happened to be the one with the knob hole - and the original hardware had been kept, so I used that. I've always loved turquoise, so I gave it a little scrub down and stained it. I also happen to be a jewelry fanatic so I dug through my jewelry boxes and found a bunch of pieces to tear apart and repurpose... there you go! 1
A few weeks after it's replacement, I was outside in the yard and I saw it there - all of it... on the wood pile! - slaughtered into bite size pieces!! - waiting to be tossed into the fire pit!!!... and I got the sense that after all that growing, reaching, striving and wishing it had been privy to over the years, well, it still needed to be...
The piece of door I grabbed off the pile happened to be the one with the knob hole - and the original hardware had been kept, so I used that. I've always loved turquoise, so I gave it a little scrub down and stained it. I also happen to be a jewelry fanatic so I dug through my jewelry boxes and found a bunch of pieces to tear apart and repurpose... there you go! 1
In his novel, The Journey Home, Irish author Dermot Bolger wrote:
"Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created for yourself,
where you did not need to explain,
where you finally became what you were."
where you did not need to explain,
where you finally became what you were."
Ciao for now..
S.
It's actually not supposed to be hard... it's meant to be easy, this is something I have learned since then.
Irish writer Dermot Bolger said it superbly; "Home is not the place where you were born, but the place you created for yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were"
This piece is called My Bedroom Door.
It features the original hardware amongst other jewels.
$295.
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