Holiday Gifts

A wedding gift in the form of a familiar tool:

Just a few days after Charlie and I married, I received a heavy package in the mail with Mom’s return address. I slowly and carefully removed the paper and packaging, and there was Dad’s favorite hammer, clean and polished. That was the most wonderful wedding gift that I have ever received. It wasn’t a cold hammer, it was a piece of Dad and every time I use it, I think of Dad. I think of the way he threatened to cut the excess handle off if I didn’t learn how to hold the damn thing on the end of the handle–not next to the head. I learned.

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