Remembering Jonathan
Jonathan was our friend, part of our “shop family” here on Clipper Mill Road in Hampden. He was part of the team of Jonathan & Bob who came to work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for six years. In the northeast corner of the shop, Jonathan repaired antique tables, sofas, beds, chests, cabinets, clocks, boxes, and more. He made dog-chewed legs good as new. He replaced lost carvings. He glued down hundreds of bits of veneer with the eye and patience of a jigsaw puzzle pro.
Jonathan’s work was the art of returning broken things to good use, the art of making things last longer, the art of making people happy with what they already had. His work was the art of renewal.
That his good, gentle heart could not receive any of these things at the end, is our deep sorrow. We loved him very much, and it was for all the things everyone else loved him for.
On his last day in the shop, Jonathan sang a song for us, and the best line of it is: “My life has meaning now, I am a window and all things seem clear to me now like a light in the storm…”
May that light ever shine upon him.
Ellen and Jim Adajian
Adajian & Nelson
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