Several years ago, while exploring the outdoors with my 6 year old daughter, she picked up a large maple leaf off the ground. We had quite a discussion about the unnatural find. It had obviously blown a long distance to settle here in the dry desert. She thought a whirlwind brought it from far away. She carried it home and left it on the kitchen table.
Sixteen years later, that same leaf is in a frame on our kitchen wall. The date is written on the mat below the leaf. Our daughter will be married next year. That framed leaf, along with my hand-written message on the back, will hopefully stir her emotions a bit when she unwraps it.
Small keepsakes are best kept when they are properly preserved, then gifted to the right person at the right time.
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