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I had the opportunity to prepare some words for Giovana Fabris di Padua Onore del Ponte Nero award bestowed at Harvest Market in 2026.  The scrollwork and calligraphy were done by Baron Hakon and Baroness Hrefna.   This is the first time I ever wrote words for someone!  The words are:

There is one who travels from Shire to Barony

With sharpened steel and a scarf of white

To defend Ponte Alto’s trusses from those hurling ignominy

A stalwart keystone of the high bridge’s might

Always with sword unholstered, at the ready

First to teach, protect, and serve 

Reaching across borders with calmness, ever steady

A cousin, a friend, one who is thoughtful, one who nurtures

So it is only fitting that Lady Giovana Fabris di Padua

Be bestowed the Onore del Ponte Nero 

To recognize her skill in combat, her heroism true

A worthy blade in the Barony’s pillared arsenal

Given on this 24th day of October  A. S. LXi at Harvest Market by their Excellancies Hfrefna Blinda and Hakon Brimill, Baronage of Ponte Alto.