Our Lives are Ornamented – with Memories
by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 12/21/2025
As we amble through our allotted years we collect things. We are collectors. Doubt me? Check that cabinet of coffee cups – mugs. There’s the one from the museum of whatever – the gag mug – that mug you got as an ‘award’ from coworkers – and so on. Coffee mugs. They are ordinary – and not. They mark moments and memories. Memory mugs?
Christmas trees can ‘collect’ as well. Ornaments. Some are gifts. Scattered among the decorations, some are special memories. There are the generational hand-me-downs.
Some are especially special; handmade heirlooms passed down from parents and grandparents. Our Christmas tree is adorned with several of my mom’s crocheted snowflakes.
Then there are the ornaments that mark time, and particularly precious family moments. Michael was born in 1984.
The sled broke one year. Needless to say, it had to be repaired. Like broken ornaments, broken memories can be repaired.
This is what this season and spirit calls us to do. This is a time of joy, giving, forgiving, and perhaps being forgiven.
So, let’s raise a coffee mug of kindness yet . . .
Then there’s my rubber cannoli. Yes, it’s lovely, because, well – cannoli! No more need be said.
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