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February, 2010
Dear MaryJane ...
I was sitting here with your Outpost book at my feet, which I’d been reading and loving, when my husband came back from the mailbox with the letter about subscribing to your magazine. I have your two other books and have enjoyed them all so much. I cannot wait to receive the magazine! Thank you for your ability to so beautifully relate soul-to-soul to many of us. I’ve never lived on a farm, but I’ve got the next best thing—MaryJanesFarm.
With love and gratitude,
Sylvia
Alabama
You’ve probably already heard this a million times, but your magazine and website are amazing! I subscribe to many magazines, but yours is the only one that I read from cover to cover and I don’t skip the ads—I even have to go online to check out the products!
Jessi Lynn
New York
I am a rookie “farmgirl sister” and very new to the wonderful world of MaryJanesFarm. I subscribed to the magazine first, and then went online and found the chatrooms. I jumped right in and found refreshing, old-fashioned gentility. One of the many positive feelings that reading MaryJanesFarm books and magazine generates is gratefulness. I so appreciate all the helpful info, ideas, inspirational thoughts, and the workaday beauty throughout. Yesterday, I had even more reason to be grateful in connection to my newfound MaryJanesFarm experience. In one of the chatroom groups, it was decided that we would have a potholder exhange. My husband and I ranch for a living in Wyoming, and I have to go to town to get my mail. When I received the package from my farmgirl sister, Carol M., I was as anxious as a child and promptly tore open the envelope. Inside, there were not only two crocheted potholders, but a matching washcloth, garden gloves, and a bookmark with a viola from Carol’s garden! To say I was delighted is an understatement. The timing was perfect. Carol could not have known that her lovely gifts came at a time when I needed an upper. It wasn’t so much the tangible items in the package, it was her gift of giving that I needed most. Confession: I had been feeling a little weary of giving and I admit to surrendering to having a private little pity party (except that now YOU know). It wasn’t a big thing, not worthy of mentioning to anyone. But my bent nose put a kink in my otherwise good attitude.
Carol to the rescue and just in time! I didn’t think I ever gave to receive something back or to get a thank-you, but apparently I AM guilty of that very thing or I wouldn’t have felt as I did. Anyway, when we receive heavenly correction, it is usually gentle, and so it was yesterday. I was reminded that it is a joyful thing to give and you do reap what you sow, but it may come back to you from different places. Carol, long after your lovely gifts wear out, your gift of giving will always be remembered.
Shery
Wyoming
