This week, I received an unexpected gift. It was a beautiful piece of artwork of red leaves in the fall sent to me by our good friend Jon Begg.
Jon lives in the Great White North but always comes for dinner and a fish whenever he is back in southern Ontario. On his last visit, we talked photography and he showed me pictures on his phone of images he had taken of the fall foliage that he had photoshopped to look like artwork. They were simply stunning.
Fast forward to this week, and I now have one of his beautiful creations hanging in my dining room. I’m not sure if that will be its permanent place of honour but every night at the dinner table, I find myself admiring this unexpected gift.
This week’s #HappyAct is to bring some joy to someone special by sending them an unexpected gift. Leave a comment and share what you did. Here’s another one of Jon’s treasured gifts, a mock magazine cover of one of the boys’ 2008 fishing expeditions on the Moira River.
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I am always so grateful that someone thought enough of me to enrich my life with an
unexpected gift. As the recipient there is the added joy of knowing that the giver of the gift is also experiencing the great enrichment of giving as well as receiving.
Recently I was presented with a Programme on the life of our late Australian National Treasure Barry Humphries, a hero of Comedy. It is especially significant to me as Dame Edna Everage was one of the most appealing things that brought me to the shores of Australia for a life well lived.
Being presented with a Utube link is so impossibly modern as a gift. The trick is knowing how to wrap it.
…….and I will now pass this lovely gift onto you and all your readers.
I am always so grateful that someone thought enough of me to enrich my life with an
unexpected gift. As the recipient there is the added joy of knowing that the giver of the gift is also experiencing the great enrichment of giving as well as receiving.
Recently I was presented with a Programme on the life of our late Australian National Treasure Barry Humphries, a hero of Comedy. It is especially significant to me as Dame Edna Everage was one of the most appealing things that brought me to the shores of Australia for a life well lived.
Being presented with a Utube link is so impossibly modern as a gift. The trick is knowing how to wrap it.
…….and I will now pass this lovely gift onto you and all your readers.
Thanks for sharing, David!
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