LETTING GO

When I think of letting go I think mostly of letting my children grow and flourish on their own.  The moment you take the training wheels off the two wheel bicycle - and run with the bike and let go - you know your children are on their own and will continue to be on their own more and more with each day passing.

This is not about my children - or maybe it is, in a way.  For the last 30 years I have fabricated fiber optic signs.  For the last 25 years we have been in a factory in Grants Pass.  Have you any idea what you can collect over a 25 year period of time.  Look around at your own house.  Check out the "Fibber McGee" drawer full of necessary things you cannot get rid of ever.  Then picture me walking out into my factory the other day and seeing a dozen large crates.  These crates housed signs that we had fabricated for special tradeshows for the last 25 years.  Well, since 1989.  I looked at those crates and realized that in each one of them were signs.  Large signs.  Fabulous signs.  Signs made specifically to show off what we can do.

And I said to myself - "Holy cow - what if I die tomorrow and my children have to deal with this?!"  So, we are having a sale over the next two days.  We have put ridiculously low prices on the signs with the idea that perhaps they will go to good homes.  (I hated the idea of taking them apart and putting them in a dumpster.) I mean - what is eBay for anyway?

I wanted my community to benefit from this shedding.  If I could give them all away I would - but I can't.
So this is what we do with gorgeous signs - we hope they will go to good homes.  We have already sold a few of them to some good friends.  I know they will love them - as much as I have.

When you create something - you care about that something.  At least I do.  I want to think of the displays as being cared for and cared about.  Is that too sentimental.  I don't think so.  I think it's pretty realistic.