December 19, 2007
From the Tree
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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She looked right into the lens of my less than steady camera. (I’d had a cocktail or three.) Danny’s favorite ornament.
One Response to “From the Tree”
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.