Water Fountain

If you read my Office Space post, you'll see that I have a water fountain in my Zen Corner. I would like to tell you about that now in a new post, because it is a very special fountain.

When our kids were young, we would go to the beach, or go for hikes and they would always come back with rocks and shells. Some were large and some were small. They usually stayed at our front door for a time, until they made it into a box or on a window ledge somewhere in the house. We kept all the one's which were important to the kids because that was important to us. We actually had a plastic box where we ended up keeping a lot of them.

The kids got older and stopped bringing rocks home. We did however, keep the box of rocks around. How could we throw away anything which meant so much to them when they were little. They were gifts to us.

This box of rocks and shells kicked around our house for years. Sometimes it was added to and sometimes taken away -- I remember some of the rocks got painted. Most of the time it just sat in a corner, waiting for its time to come.

I got an idea one day to make a water fountain for Susan, from the kids for Mother's Day. I got a bowl and a pump and then set all of the rocks and shells in the bowl. Susan loved it. It was a perfect way to preserve those wonderful rocks.

In our old place, we didn't really have much room for it, so it got stuck in a corner and forgotten about. When I found it, I knew exactly where it should go once we moved, and there it sits, softly gurgling away.

It has such a peaceful sound and diffuses other noises in the house. The best thing about it though is that it came from our kids and is a cherished gift.