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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Janine: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by OliviaG: [qb]... Would it be undignified to carry something small that indicates that each of you represents around 4000... mourners of diverse faiths from around the world? OliviaG [/qb][/QUOTE]Undoubtedly, as the dust settles, we'll think of a couple of lovely symbolic items we [i]could[/i] have carried. I'll be cruising through an antique shop or flea market and spot the very thing, months from now, I'm sure. I did carry something symbolic, with meaning for me, personally, if y'all will excuse me the long post it takes to explain it to you: Well over a year ago, my daughter the Amazon-Valkyrie bought a birthday gift for me. She squirreled it away, early shopping being her habit. Wrapped it and hid it all this time, to bring it to light again in time for my birthday, Epiphany 2011. Flash forward to about nine months ago. I was shopping for the 2010 CO/NM meet. I bought a very nice dress, even [i]staid[/i] (by my usual gypsy standards), classic lines, saved from being just too dressy for me by its fabric: a very deep, dark, almost black blue denim. Never did wear it. It was rescued from daughter-in-law's fundraising sale in December by the lingering idea that I might sometime need to go somewhere looking respectable. All a dark denim-inspired garment needs to set it off is an accent of just the right vibrant shade of golden yellow, or light harvest orange-gold, the same color as the traditional blue-jean stitching. I never did find the right thing. Again flash forward, to the end of the year. Erin passes away. All the help she'd given me and all her presence interwoven into the Ship's Boards... Here I was only 600 miles away. How could I possibly manage the trip for the funeral? How could I [i]not[/i] manage it? Horrible strain on the budget, on the covering co-workers' goodwill -- I kept hammering at the details and worked it out, but even after I [i]was sure [/i] it was all coming together, it still seemed a fragile arrangement, subject to crumbling even up to the final moment. So much could go wrong. Now picture this: Funeral's eve, January 6th, coordinating final nagging loose ends so I can please-Lord-get-on-the-road, resembling a headless barnyard fowl, frazzled, talking to myself... [i]"9-hour drive, 'Jesus take the wheel' indeed... Lord help me... pack that dress... where are my shoes... FG's shoes..."[/i] The Valkyrie has me slow down for a moment. She hands me my birthday present. So much on my mind with Erin's passing; I'd forgotten there was that gift for me. Heck, I'd forgotten for the moment that it was my birthday. Pretty package. Open the wrapping... Inside I see a soft orange color, just the shade I'd been hoping to find in a scarf, a pin, a handbag -- something to accessorize the dark denim dress. [i]It is an alligator purse.[/i] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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