Did you know that Briar named Where the Hart Is specifically with their late grandparents in mind?
Their grandfather and abuela were Briar’s second set of parents, offering Briar a sense of home and stability at all times, and especially when things at home were a bit rocky.
The couple were the definite patriarch and matriarch of the family, with strong values and warm hearts. Their home was the center of every holiday, and the safe base for their children when they couldn’t make ends meet elsewhere.
Papa was an incredibly smart, wise, compassionate man. There are many stories about him doing things like chatting with a phone operator when lines were jammed on New Year’s Eve (before cell phones, of course) and making sure she was still having a good evening despite work, to exaggerations about him having read the entire dictionary, because he read books like fish drink water, and every time he came across a word he didn’t know, he would look it up, and then make an effort to incorporate it into his everyday vocabulary.
He would have been 84 today, and we like to think he’d be very proud of everything Briar’s done, and everything Where the Hart Is is setting out to do.🥹❤️