here is a handful of important "fiber" matter -- a bunch of ripley's baby teeth, and a grape-nutlike item.
a little closer now. it really does look like a grape-nut, doesn't it?
it's a kidney stone that i had when i was seventeen. really! i have saved it all these years because boy, was that an event.
this is a photo of me on the day before the kidney stone announced itself. that would be october 30, 1987. yep, that's how significant a day it was. it's branded on my memory. and although i have always loved this photo, it is forever in my mind "the picture of the day before the kidney stone".
that baby -- toddy freedman -- made me a lego wedding cake when i got married to tim in 1994. he is in college now.
here are my items again -- the ripley teeth and the kidney stone -- all done up in a little tube for fed exing. yep, i fed exed them. but where? and why? that's the part i can't tell yet, for i do not want to spoil the surprise.
i also had to e-mail this picture to the individual who, later that week, received a very ominous fed ex package indeed. she was expecting it, so it was okay. this picture is taken an entire lifetime later than that last picture -- almost exactly! and while it may not be a favorite, i can certainly take worse, and this image does get across some information necessary to the recipient of the special package. there is geographic information, and there is emotional information, both imparted in this photo. i did not send her a cute, smiley photo, for a reason.
there. that's all i have now. there will be knitting and blackwork posts related to this project as well. more to come.
and for those special readers of mine who demand a rigorous continuity at all times, yes those are ripper's teeth -- i DO have a tooth of flannery's, but only one. i do intend to have a ring made out of it. but hey! i found a use for the kidney stone, didn't i?