Beautiful essay. I have a memory—maybe part imagination—that in your childhood home, the Magi figurines would start far off (several feet away, on a mantle or shelf, I think) and move closer gradually until they joined the rest of the crèche at their big moment in the nativity story.
Now I do this with my crèche each year. However incomplete my memory, I credit your parents with a lovely way of playing with the real.
Wow I’d forgotten about this; thanks so much for the reminder! I think the idea came from a book, wish I could remember which one. Thank you for reading; it’s lovely to still be connected through words! ❤️
Beautiful essay. I have a memory—maybe part imagination—that in your childhood home, the Magi figurines would start far off (several feet away, on a mantle or shelf, I think) and move closer gradually until they joined the rest of the crèche at their big moment in the nativity story.
Now I do this with my crèche each year. However incomplete my memory, I credit your parents with a lovely way of playing with the real.
Wow I’d forgotten about this; thanks so much for the reminder! I think the idea came from a book, wish I could remember which one. Thank you for reading; it’s lovely to still be connected through words! ❤️