I don’t know what your refrigerator looks like but mine is a hodge podge–I’m talking about the outside, of course. Pictures of family through the years, of friends, cartoons or clever sayings. But, believe me, each piece of memorabilia is there for a very good reason! Sara’s and Nathan’s pictures and Dayla’s children pictures and cards they’ve made for me are held on by magnets. The ad for trash bags that I cut from a magazine years ago adorns the side of the ‘fridge because it’s inspiring. A 1950s lady in pink stretch pants, teased hair, in a pink 1950s kitchen, bravely faces the day, sunlight streaming through the window. For some reason, she reminds me of Breton’s painting, Song of the Lark. By the way, Breton is my second all-time favorite artist, right next to Rembrandt. Also adorning my refrigerator are snippets of cartoons, two in particular sent by my sister Helen a long time ago.
Helen and I used to send each other things like cartoons or poems in our letters. She sent the one here in 1995 and I’ve kept it. You can tell it has been around but it’s still catchy.
Here are just a few samples of refrigerator love:
“In spite of illness, in spite of sorrow, one can remain lively long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. — A Backward Glance, 1934.
“From the rising of the sun to its going down, the Lord’s name is to be praised” (Psalm 113:3).
And then there’s Pooh telling Piglet, “If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll be there forever.”
These things are uplifting. Also encouraging is a note from a new subscriber to this blog who just finished reading The Cemetery Club. She loved it, she tells me, and can’t wait to read Grave Shift and Best Left Buried. Now, that’s music to my ears!
Which reminds me, after you read one of the Darcy and Flora cozy mysteries, if you would write a short review, I’d be glad.
All three cozies are written with love and represent two women, mother and daughter, just the kind of people you might want to get to know and stop in to share with them a cup of coffee but these ladies are insatiably curious. And, as Grant Hendley said, trouble follows Darcy like a hunting dog follows a trail. It’s that curiosity that leads them into some hair-raising difficulties. I wonder if Darcy and Flora have a cluttered refrigerator too?
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