Got some great ideas for Christmas gifts for my grandkids from Tery's blog The Write Way. I checked out Bare Books which offers blank gameboards, puzzles, journals, books, plastic crayons and a variety of imaginative tools to help a child become creative and write or design their own materials. Check them out, prices aren't bad and I recieved my order within a week. I love to give presents that encourage my grandkids to be creative artistically and with the written word.
It's interesting that anyone can write and there are times in our lives when words seem so close and the only means of expression. My husband who is very quiet, wrote some beautiful poems and letters while we were courting that I treasure. Here's one I'll share with you. His poems even rhyme-mine don't. His gift was an Indian wedding vase shown in the photo below.
A gift to remember
This cherished day.
A symbol of our union
In a potter's clay.
May it always remind you
Of our lives so new.
May it always bring thoughts
Of my love for you.
Your loving husband always,
Allen
When was the last time you wrote a poem or free verse expressing your thoughts or received one?