http://blog.chinaberry.com/2008/11/how-a-special-book-helped-our-family/ The Meeting Place for the Chinaberry Community Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:17:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blog.chinaberry.com/2008/11/how-a-special-book-helped-our-family/#comment-33 Sheila at Chinaberry Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:02:41 +0000 http://blog.chinaberry.com/?p=317#comment-33 When my father-in-law passed away, Daniel and Ben were not really old enough to understand what was happening to their grandpa. Searching for a way to help them, I remembered Chinaberry -- this was in the years I was a customer before I started working at Chinaberry. So I made the trek to Chinaberry, heart in hand, in hopes they would help out. And help they did, in the form of Susan Varley’s remarkable book, <a href="http://www.chinaberry.com/prod.cfm/pgc/11100/sbc/11104/inv/6198/tid/628103106" rel="nofollow"><em>Badger’s Parting Gifts</em></a>. Those parting gifts Badger leaves are the memories his friends have of him. These memories keep Badger alive in the friends who, although they still miss him, are starting to smile again. This was just the sort of sentiment I wanted for my boys and we read this book through and through many times. Although they are much older now, this book remains on my bookshelf, as one of my all time most-beloved books. When my father-in-law passed away, Daniel and Ben were not really old enough to understand what was happening to their grandpa. Searching for a way to help them, I remembered Chinaberry — this was in the years I was a customer before I started working at Chinaberry. So I made the trek to Chinaberry, heart in hand, in hopes they would help out. And help they did, in the form of Susan Varley’s remarkable book, Badger’s Parting Gifts. Those parting gifts Badger leaves are the memories his friends have of him. These memories keep Badger alive in the friends who, although they still miss him, are starting to smile again. This was just the sort of sentiment I wanted for my boys and we read this book through and through many times. Although they are much older now, this book remains on my bookshelf, as one of my all time most-beloved books.

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