FINAL GLIDE SYMPATHY CARD FOR GLIDER PILOTS
Featuring the incredible poem by John Gillespir McGee Jr. that begins ...
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings .... and ends
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
Which as a glider pilot in my youth I find very appropriate, and not at all 'soppy'.
This card was designed to say goodbye to one of my old gliding instructors ... which explains why the insert reads : May God Bless his Final Glide - In Deepest Sympathy... final glide being the name given to the approach just before landing and what has been engraved on my father's headstone. Any glider pilot's widow will be so touched by this card, but I realise that there aren't many of you who are going to need it.
Thanks for looking and BLESSINGS be upon you.
Photographs from the Community
This card needs nothing else. I added the card front to a folded 250g sheet, cut to form a double card, added the insert and topped off with three square strass dots.
I then fashioned an envelope using a single sheet of A4.
Crafting is not big in france so buying standard blanks without the internet is near impossible so I often make up my own.
