A New Year's Sentiment...

Dear friends of ours kept this sentiment on the wall 

of their old stone house... up in Addison, Vermont. 

Before moving down here to South Jersey,

I hastily penciled the words on a piece of paper;

knowing that one day I would want them to hang on our wall! 

We picked up this worn cupboard panel two years ago,

on one of our jaunts to Lancaster County.

I photocopied the words on manila card-stock,

then coffee stained them... added a primitive fabric heart,

and a nice vintage key... all held together with rusty wire!

It reads:

There is a place that we call memory.  

A province by itself, which though unseen... 

is home and haven to the heart. 

And there, in peace and beauty waiting... 

are those with whom we shared our yesterdays.