A house unchanged , a house totally changed. I have time, lots of time to sort through a lifetime of possessions and I move at the speed of one with a long, lazy road before her. There is no hurry to eradicate the past, to decide what is important and not. No hurry, yet it begins to happen naturally, and what is important surprises. Of all the items piled in the corner of the table the largest is the size of a saltine cracker.
The worry stone Hannah slipped quietly into my hand as the memorial service began. “Hold this, Ahmaw, ” my granddaughter said, “It will keep you calm.”
His wallet. You have to open these things that have always been a place you do not go. But you are there–a tiny picture from long ago.
His wedding ring. So it was the third in a line of replacements, the others lost who knows where.
The ubiquitous golf balls.
Oh yeah, and the Mile High Club pin.
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