What's the best present you ever gave someone?

Hi mags!

I've got to put my thinking cap on.....

One year, I sent Msolga a box of Bisquick. She was thrilled to death - I guess.

Hard to pick, as sometimes gifts gain in value, and sometimes plummet in value. Off to cogitate.

Years ago, Wally had found a picture in a magazine of a little persian kitten painted on a plate. It looked just like what Jezzer must have looked like when she was a baby (we didn't see her until she was a year or so old). He cut it out and put it one the mirror of his bathroom, and it hung there for a couple of years.

I got the idea to get that plate, which I hadn't seen again in all that time.

Took awhile, but I tracked it down and gave it to him for Christmas.

It's one of his favorite things.

The best is surely not always the most expensive, but something that has import to the recipient.

did she make you some buns?

I guess it's all the donations I gave to charity that helped people I don't even know.

No. It might have been better to say "speechless". Not sure she's spoken to me since.

As 6the leader of an oil exploration team ,I once gave the gift of life to several rebels who attacked our drill rigs and killed three of our party, one of the security squad of Marines and wounded several of us. I released them to NATO forces who took them and had them detained and then sent back to Chad. They were like 13 or 14 year oild kids with heavy guns and my guys wanted to kill them so badly that they actually cried with angr when I had a NATO patrol take custody of them . I was in a bad way physically at the time and I had a premonition that if I had the kids killed it would haunt me forever. While it wasnt Christmas it was on a January 26.
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Id never before or never since seen men actually cry with anger, It was very spooky a sight.


Robert, Patrice, Phillipe, and Buddy, you are always in my thoughts.

farmerman, You certainly had a life-changing event that most of us are lucky enough not having to decide the fate of children. I was a jury member of a rape-murder trial, and we gave the man "life in prison without the possibility of parole," because his brother and grandmother asked us for mercy. I believe we did the right thing. Jason Michael Crippen in now in state prison serving his time.

and Ill bet you still sleep better because of your decision NO?

That sure as hell beats the computer I gave my mom.

No question. However, I prefer not to serve again as a jury member in another life and death decision case.

Farmerman: I'm truly speecheless. Sometimes I read A2K threads with mirth or astonishment. Those experiences astonish me. Thankfully you made it in one piece.

ditto

I don't think I've ever saved a life, but I did give Bear a guitar shortly after we were married that he still plays today. When he lost his wedding band, I got him one with five diamonds, one for each of his children.

I try to put a lot of thought into gift giving to make it personal and meaningful. Sometimes it just has to be practical depending on the needs.

Squinney, the best present you gave the Bear was your love.

BBB

That's the cool thing squinney, sometimes you never know what you've done or what you've said that has saved someone's life, or changed it for the better.


hmmm....a friend of ours has lupus, and has been clinically dead a number of times.

Whether you believe in after death experiences, she says she's had them, and that's all that's important.

During one of them, she didn't want to "come back", but was told she had to, because she hadn't yet completed her lifes purpose.

but....she was told......she may never know when she has completed it.


I love that. It's like no one's life is meaningless. You may not do some dramatic thing, but one little word or act toward someone might be the purpose of your life.

Doesn't even matter if that word or act is in love or violence...it was your life's purpose.

Actually Raggman, Ive found these boards a real purgative cause Ive been able to gradually unfold my my story about why I look as disfigured as I do.