Originally Posted by
Hamish
Quite a number of years ago, we decided to notify everyone with whom we exchanged presents that we would, from that date, stop giving them and would instead make donations to nominated charities to the value that we might have spent on our family and friends - and hoped that they would do the same.
We adopted this very practice in 1990, when my mother passed away. Our family gives an annual donation in her memory to the non-governmental, nonprofit public library where she served as a trustee of long standing, and to which she devoted many, many hours of toil. And yet, like Cessna152towser, there are others to whom we feel compelled to give, and we feel blessed to be able to do so. I have enjoyed this thread. You are a great group of folks. Thank you all.
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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