My husband, Mark, left behind a garage full of tools when cancer took him two years ago.
Our son, Mason, was seven then.
He’s nine now, and he still guards those tools like pieces of his dad.
Mark had been a carpenter for nearly twenty years, and before he got too sick to work, Mason spent hours beside him learning to measure boards, sand rough edges, and drive a screw straight.
he still guards those tools
But the lesson Mason remembered most wasn’t really about carpentry.
“Build things people actually need,” Mark used to tell him.
For two years, those words had mostly been a memory.