It Was As If

by Lucie C. Boucher

​​As you walk in, you immediately feel welcome and comfortable.  Most of the furniture is exquisitely handmade.  You know how wood can be so very soft that you want to run your hand over it just to feel how silky it is?  There are beautiful touches everywhere you look in their home – a series of art quilts on the wall, elegant colored glass hanging in the window, oriental rugs over hardwood floors, and healthy green plants everywhere.  It’s the kind of place where you want to be with friends spending the afternoon chatting and sharing a glass of wine.

As you listen to stories of their life together, you can’t help noticing all the wonderfully personal touches throughout the house.  There’s an authentic personalized military sword on the wall over the wood stove, a two-foot-tall fat-bellied Buddha statue tucked beside a table filled with rocks and plants, a fake stuffed moose hanging on the gable of the cathedral wall, and a coffin in front of the sliding glass doors.  Yes, you read that right: a coffin with a pot of markers sitting on top of it.  The coffin placed strategically looking over the raised beds in the yard.

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