带着这些令人惊异的宝贝,我离开了“玫瑰碗”跳蚤市场。6年后的今天,我对此事仍然感到惊奇,觉得这就是“一切机缘的巧合”才使我找回了丢失的瓷器。如果我那天赖床睡到很晚;如果那天我没有去“玫瑰碗”市场;如果我没有路过那个拐角,而是离开那里找个地方休息,那事情又会是怎样呢?
上个星期,我邀请了15位朋友到家里参加聚会,并把祖母的瓷器拿出来使用。用完餐,我用失去很久的茶杯和茶托为大家送上咖啡时,心中燃起了一种自豪感。
一件很普通的瓷器被赋予了爱之后,它的意义也就不再寻常。它承载着亲人的思念、祝福和惜爱,是主人公的精神寄托,见其物,如见赠物之人。你是否也珍藏着这样一件物品?抑或是你已将其遗忘……
grandmother’s china
kristine lundquist
in 1949 my parents made the big move from rockford, illinois, to southern california, along four cartons of her mother’s hand-painted dinner china. grandmother had painted this lovely set herself, choosing a forget-me-not pattern.
unfortunately, something happened during the move. one box of the china didn’t make it. it never arrived at our ne pieces, but missing atherings or iving or christmas dinner, my mother about the missing china and how she wished it had survived the trip.
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