I'm very bad at hanging on to good jewelry.
I was 15 when someone stole my triple strand of seed pearls which I bought in the Khan el-Khalili in Cairo. I think I wore it... twice? before it was gone.
My sophomore year of college I managed to lose the large gold ring that was my last keepsake from Senegal.
I came back from Scotland with a cute pair of gold thistle earrings. They broke in under 6 months.
I currently can't find the necklace that my folks got me for my 16th birthday - the one I wore for my wedding. Also missing is the first piece of jewelry my husband ever got me while we were dating. I'm convinced that once we unpack all the boxes from our last move, I will find them both. I hope. I pray.
A couple years ago I purchased a pair of earrings at the Renaissance Festival. Loved them, wore them all the time. Lost one of them a few months back. I was under the impression that the missing earring was somewhere in Saginaw at my parents' house. However, when one of my new pearl studs fell down the bathroom sink, my husband valiantly disassembled the plumbing to retrieve it. We also found the Ren Fest earring in the u-bend! Happy day!
But wouldn't you know, I then couldn't find the
other earring which hadn't been lost.
Well, a couple nights ago, we were at the home of some dear friends, and for the occasion I pulled a cropped khaki jacket out of the back of my closet and discovered the offending earring in one of the little pockets. I'm not sure I can express how happy I was upon finding that earring.
So I've become pretty good at "letting go." After all, it's all just stuff. It gets lost. And found. And lost again. And sometimes, on good days, rediscovered for good.
I'm sure there's a sermon illustration in there somewhere. Or some schmaltz about how now all I have from those places are the happy memories. But I think the more immediate moral of the story is that I should never try to have nice jewelry. I'm just not very good at it.
I'm going to go enjoy my refound earrings now.
Comments (2)
a jewelry box, james... I'm just saying.
I would invest in a gps locator for your wedding ring.