December 19, 2007

From the Tree

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She looked right into the lens of my less than steady camera. (I’d had a cocktail or three.) Danny’s favorite ornament.

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  1. Sheila Ryan on December 19th, 2007 at 10:16 pm

    Oh, will you just look at her? Her colors (and her shape) remind me of my favorite childhood ornament, “Two-Star Hennessy”. Two-Star Hennessy was a golden ball figured with two glittering pink stars, one centered in each hemisphere. (Its name, bestowed by my father, referred to Hennessy cognac; two stars perhaps designated V.S.)

    I must have been four (perhaps I was five) when Two-Star Hennessy’s spell so enchanted me that I hooked it over my ear (to this day I love big dramatic earrings) and whirled about the living room in a dizzy waltz.

    And shattered Two-Star Hennessy.

    I felt as though a shard of rose-gold glass had pierced my heart.

    But you know what? Come next Christmas (or maybe it was that very same Yule), another Two-Star Hennessy appeared on our tree. Thus did I learn of mass production, and with that knowledge came a slight but perceptible rift between my household world and the realm of enchantment.


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