tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64072181544563961972024-03-13T08:07:51.354-07:00Stuff And StoryThe stories about the stuff we own.Debrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07504185070473121551noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6407218154456396197.post-66873702618022988272011-01-09T08:37:00.000-08:002011-01-09T08:37:18.080-08:00Silver Coated Baby Shoe<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A-SaS0t74no/TSlCd6K3qVI/AAAAAAAAAho/7ODQmA_EDXw/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_A-SaS0t74no/TSlCd6K3qVI/AAAAAAAAAho/7ODQmA_EDXw/s320/IMG_0007.JPG" width="320" /></a>This is the shoe I wore when I first began walking. Ive been told I was about 10 months old -I honestly do not remember, nor wish to debate the details with others. The exact time isn't important.<br />
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What is important is that this item is about 58 years old. I've had possession of it most of that time -holding on to it through 6 major moves. For a while, it was displayed in my parent's living room -alongside my older brother's bronzed first baby shoe-until such things didn't fit with the updated decor. I was about 8 when it came to reside in my room. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A-SaS0t74no/TSlCeJyDc7I/AAAAAAAAAhw/hb9VVAufRiU/s1600/IMG_0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_A-SaS0t74no/TSlCeJyDc7I/AAAAAAAAAhw/hb9VVAufRiU/s320/IMG_0006.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Not that I display this all the time. It spends months and years sitting in a drawer or cabinet somewhere. I have been known to take it out when looking for an "artistic object" to add to a still life -or something to give a "sign of humanity" to something. <br />
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In part, I keep it because nobody else would want it. An anonymous single silvered shoe at a garage sale or thrift store would languish until they chose to discard it. So I keep.<br />
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I like that the shoe laces look soft and sloppy even though they have been frozen in time in that sloppy pose. The bell does not ring any longer -telling the world where to find me -and where I'm heading. I understand they no longer recommend that children use these shoes -instead going for softer materials that let the foot learn to explore it's universe on it's own. Perhaps that's another to keep this: it holds the memory of a world that was firm and fast, unbending, as my little feet learned to play the earth's rules.<br />
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