With the release of YUKON WEDDING today, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about treasures. I’ve been pondering what makes them, why we hide them, what happens when we lose them or when we grab the wrong ones. There’s a lot to ponder.
Some of the best treasures are tokens, or milestones. Wedding rings, my first valentine from my husband, the signed bat White Sox baseball star AJ Pierzynski gave my son this past summer--objects that call up a host of happy or significant memories. We are a tactile species; things around us can spur memories when we interact with them.
In my book, Lana has a brooch she wears every day to remind her of the woman she believed she could have been (and still is, somewhere inside). Her life changes when the brooch is damaged, and it spurs her to take drastic new steps. I have something close to that: I have a bracelet--two of them, in fact, that I wear everyday. Each bead represents something specific and positive in my life. It is a celebration of sorts--our generation’s version of the charm bracelet. Pandora and Trollbeads were the first to market these, but there have been many versions in recent years. I buy a bead to celebrate an achievement or a milestone, and I deliberately never buy them to memorialize sad occasions. It’s like wearing a timeline of optimism around my wrist, my life’s blessings in baubles.
How to you collect your blessings? Do you mark them at all? Would you like to?
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