One thing I love doing when I´m bored is to rummage through my old stuff. It´s always fun to see what I can find and what feelings the flashbacks might give me. Opening a loveletter written years ago, finding a piece of paper with a poem I wrote that sweetheart or reading a cut out article for when I was in the local paper for some reason.
Nowdays I seldom wear jewelry (unless dog-tags count as jewelry..) but when I was younger I did, even a small ring in my right ear. When looking through some old boxes I found a smaller one in plastic, and what do you know there they where, my old shiny "precious".
Among other things I found two bracelets, one in silver with some kind of viking/celtic design (that was all the rage at the time) that a got as a present when I finished ninth grade and one with tin embroidery (indigenous people in sweden -samer- makes those I think).
But I also found the one in the middle, a pendant that looks like an owl that I got in Rhodos, Greece in 1988 when I as a boy vacationed there with my family. I remeber I could pick one from a whole lot. If I got a cheaper one I could get something more, my parents told me, but I wanted this one. To this day I don´t know why, I was drawn to it, and I must say it still fascinates me when I look at it. Maybe it was the nature/animal lover in me who made the choice, or maybe the owl is my spirit animal (I do love books and knowledge). I wonder if they still make these in Greece and sell to the tourists?
