Strong feelings of nostalgia, resignation, and grown up love today. Someone I know deeply made vows, making our paths further and closer simultaneously. The intersection of lives in this world are mysterious.
I�ve become the seventh generation owner of a tiny jewelry box that belonged to my great great great great grandmother from Seville nearly 200 hundred years ago. If I die without children as planned, I�ll have to choose which cousin is most deserving of it. My nearest cousin is unable to have children, so when I�m on my deathbed I�ll have to ship it 2,115 miles away to the hands of my next-nearest cousin. I have about 20 other heirlooms that will have to be sent all over the world in order to be kept in the family. I�ll happily be a mother to none but heirlooms. Maybe when I die I�ll have them sent to museums with a plaque that reads �from the collection of� with my name on it, to preserve my legacy in a final act of narcissism, just to make all my future friends at the old folks home jealous!
1:04 a.m. - 2008-05-18