The Eyes of Silver Blue

Pieces of my past

By Silver Blue

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There are certain things that will always remind me of my youth, and I’ve had the opportunity to capture a few of these in picture this evening.

This was from my Grandma on my mom’s side. He sat on a shelf in her kitchen for years. I mean… for YEARS.

There’s something underneath him as if he were at one time mounted on a pole or something like that. He’s heavy…made of solid metal except for those gleaming red eyes. Grandma gave him to me in the mid-80s, and he’s either been on the shelf above mom’s sink, or in her display case since then.

Dad brought back, from Japan, a pair of Kimono’d figurines.

(The sword hors d’oeuvres picks were from Greece (as is the wine decanter behind the male figure) when dad was in the Navy.  I gave him the Cherished Teddy Sailor for Father’s day about 15 years ago.)

When I was in High School, I ended up having to drop out of AP Algebra and take Algebra III at a local college. I helped a Chinese lady with her English, and she presented me with this watercolour. This would have been either fall 1984 or spring 1985, but she painted it in June 1983. I still remember the other option was a clown on a unicycle with balloons, but this more captured the Lucy I knew. 🙂

My room is pretty much as it was when I lived at my parents house, with a few minor changes. I was big into unicorns and suncatchers in high school:

The feathers were from Ohio — a cousin, if I recall correctly.

Finally, remember my logo? This one?

It’s still there. It’s just hidden now behind my mother’s collection of Furby’s (she has them all, except for the gem encrusted $100,000.00 FAO Swartz edition):

Years can’t take away these memories. 🙂

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Silver Blue… over and out.