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What's In Your Box?
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What's In Your Box? A "famous" Forest once said, "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." So if you were to put things in your life box that represented the significant or important things or events in your life what would it contain? They don't have to be actual items that you can get your hands on, in fact they should be the things you would want to put in there if you happened to have them or could just be items that you would like to use to represent an event, feeling or memory. I would put in a twig to represent all the trees I climbed as a and maybe just because I like trees too. There would be a cigar butt for the time I tried to light it on the side of the trash burning barrel and decided smoking was yucky, I was in the 2nd grade I think, though it could have been in the first grade.  I would put in a clump of yellow snow for when I used to walk home from school in the winter when we lived at the house with the burn barrel. I sometimes stopped on the dead end street where my parents until recently had a home which is the street before the street with the burn barrel house, and made yellow snow. The snow banks were high and I would climb up over the top and down the other side so people couldn't see what I was doing from the street, but the people living in the houses could have seen me if they looked out the windows. What can I say... I had to go...  It was such a relief...  I would put in a piece of electric fence... without the electric... to remind me that "brook" water and electricity make a very enlightening experience.  A clump of dirt to remember the times running about the trailer park and surrounding woods in 3rd and 4th grade and the dirt clod wars.  A picture of a flashing neon sign for a "Best Western" hotel, to remember the first night I spent in Colorado Springs at the trailer park we moved to when I finished the 4th grade in the Summer of 72. I spent a good deal of time setting on my bed looking out the window that night watching that sign flash. Lots of memories from CO. A compass to remember a good friend that I used to go hunting with many years ago. I never got lost... really... I didn't.. maybe a little turned around but not lost...  A movie ticket stub... to remember when I was first getting to know my one time wife.  She liked going to the movies. A couple of carved rosewood animal figurines that I bought for my wife... one for each of our two when they were born. The ring I gave to my wife after our was born. It had four birthstones on it. Two larger ones for my wife, Emerald, and I, Zircon, setting together and Two smaller ones for the two Peridot and Sapphire one on each side of the larger ones forming a diamond shape. I do believe she sold it along with all the gold jewelry I had given her. She then went out with her girlfriend and partied till it was gone. Hitting the bars and buying their Drugs and Alcohol. They had a good time for a while. Something yellow... because I like yellow an awful lot... probably lots of yellow things.  I guess I'm sentimental. I like all my pictures for the memories even if they didn't come out very well. So what's in your life box" Vive La Difference |
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-The picture of my 3 kids from last Christmas. -The watch my ex-husband gave me for my 19th birthday. I really did love him once upon a time. -The keys to my purple jeep. The first vehicle I ever bought all on my own. -My notebook journal that I kept all through high school.
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this touched me deeply. as did all the comments. my box. oh dear. river rocks that I've collected from all the places I've loved the ring my son gave me when he was 12. a netsuke that came from a friend who has passed over a picture of my mama that I say hello to every morning and on eof my dad fishing a letter from Bill my wedding ring Charlie's collar Weezer's kimono Mya's auntie plaque my amethyst with the anemone in it the sea glass from Jerusalem that's it. it would be such a small box....unless I added all the photos You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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Wow what a great post. I will give this some thought and re-post. One thing that will be in my box will be a beer bottle cap to remind me of the alcoholic I escaped from (Virtual Symposium Group) use Virtual Symposium Group
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I'd pack a photograph of my parents, a book I wrote and some vinyl records. 
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A nice post there tickles.. my pets since I don't have any kids hugsssssssss V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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That's a tough one. The only two things that I really treasure are two old photos. 
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This is a sweet post, Tickles. In my box there'd be a picture of my wife. Become a member now and get a free tote bag.
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