|
This little card is suitable for all occasions, especially celebrations of new babies. Or, perhaps you would like to send a note to your dear sister to enjoy a memory of childhood excursions, or to your delightful little brother to remind him of the time you saw the fireflies on Cape Cod last summer.
Other Things You Might Like to Know: The original artwork is graphite and colored pencil on paper | © 2015 Melinda Nettles | Designed and printed in Oregon, USA | Paper and envelopes are by Mohawk and have 30% Post-consumer recycled content | Paper is FSC® Certified |
The Back Story:
Is it entirely impossible that a trip to the beach before the age of tiny* has a lasting effect on your destiny? Mayhap this little one, propped in her Poppa’s arms to watch the fireflies flicker tonight, shall go on to study marine mammals - the porpoise and the narwhale - or the rarest species of feathery dune grasses, or the tiniest of sand-hopping birds, the ones that run in and out and in again at the frothy edge of the waves. Or maybe she will fill notebooks with poems of salt marshes or sketchbooks with pictures of sea stars. Or maybe she will restore tall sailing ships, or design racing yachts, fast as the wind. Or dig up ancient seaports, brushing off each potsherd with a toothbrush and unearthing fragile timbers with a tiny trowel. Who’s to know? And won’t it be delightful to find out? * Note: In case you had forgotten, because maybe it’s been a while since you’ve been a little baby, and not everyone remembers the experience with exact precision, the age of tiny comes just after the age of very tiny, and well before the age of toddler; the age when you have only very recently - like late this morning - discovered that the very small toes you have been noticing occasionally end up in your mouth actually belong to you. |