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Remembering Ren Parziale

Maybe you know that Ren Parziale used to love to get his hair cut in a barber shop in a little village in Italy. I assume the barbers there were friendly to Ren because his ancestors used to live in that village. They felt like they knew him, and he felt like he knew them. I imagine the place, Ren in an old barber’s chair, practicing his Italian, feeling welcome as if he were family. Maybe this was it, he was family. Just like he was a part of our community, here in West Virginia, part of our family in Jefferson County.

 

Dear Ren passed away some weeks ago, when daffodils first popped open to show their yellow faces to the world, and the budding branches reached for the sky. When the clay of the earth shifted with an unseen life we humans cannot know or comprehend. It’s all so tiny, all too huge, not in our time cycle.

 

Here, in these words, we send love from all that knew of Ren, and all that knew him well.

 

We send light and comfort to Pam and family.

 

For you, those that have visited this website, and Sycamore Pottery, and most likely have pots in your cabinets and on your tables formed by his hands, I invite you to feel welcome to comment below, or pause in remembrance of the pleasure of getting a nice haircut.


As Ren so often said, "Here's looking at you kid!"



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