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This Perfect Gift
This Perfect Gift
By Jane Tawel
December 19, 2024
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When I was born,
Someone gave me a beautiful container.
It was perfect, just as it was.
People marveled over it –
“How lovely”, they said.
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Right from the beginning,
I knew, without knowing,
that this container was a marvel,
an endless delight, to explore,
to caress, to wonder at.
And everyone agreed.
I enjoyed endless hours
playing with my container,
just hanging out and being
with my container.
Even so young, I knew
that to care for this container —
this vessel of perfect form and function,
this earthy, natural, but divine mystery —
was a responsibility and a gift.
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Perfectly formed but oh, so fragile,
the container got its first ding