virtual memorials for inanimate objects
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Silver Ring with Light Green Stone
Most of mom's jewelry was stolen long ago by robbers watching her comings and goings as they replaced roof shingles on the neighbor's house. She is elderly now and has been giving my three sisters the last few pieces she has each year, things that were missed by the thieves. Perhaps thinking I'd feel left out, she gives me a trifle too sometimes.
She had to go into the hospital this Christmas, alerting us to her mortality.
I entered her house alone to fetch her a sweater and saw an envelope addressed to me with holiday stickers all over it. I opened it to find an old silver ring with a translucent pale green stone; inside the envelope it read "Maybe a pinkie ring?"
I was very touched and wondered if this might be the last Christmas gift I would receive from her. Blurry minded, I put the ring and envelope in my pocket, and toyed with the ring and my coins the rest of the day.
I lost the ring soon after. I am very disheartened, but still have the envelope with her note and stickers on it.
Last seen in Redlands, California, on January 3, 2008.
Drewl, Chicago, Illinois ¶ 11:13 AM
Most of mom's jewelry was stolen long ago by robbers watching her comings and goings as they replaced roof shingles on the neighbor's house. She is elderly now and has been giving my three sisters the last few pieces she has each year, things that were missed by the thieves. Perhaps thinking I'd feel left out, she gives me a trifle too sometimes.
She had to go into the hospital this Christmas, alerting us to her mortality.
I entered her house alone to fetch her a sweater and saw an envelope addressed to me with holiday stickers all over it. I opened it to find an old silver ring with a translucent pale green stone; inside the envelope it read "Maybe a pinkie ring?"
I was very touched and wondered if this might be the last Christmas gift I would receive from her. Blurry minded, I put the ring and envelope in my pocket, and toyed with the ring and my coins the rest of the day.
I lost the ring soon after. I am very disheartened, but still have the envelope with her note and stickers on it.
Last seen in Redlands, California, on January 3, 2008.
Drewl, Chicago, Illinois ¶ 11:13 AM
