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January 12, 2004
luck
My mother-in-law has a knack for finding four leaf clovers. She just looks down at a patch of grass and they nearly jump right up. She must have passed on a little bit of luck the last time she loaded me up with clovers...this time I found a whole passel of them on my own.
Yesterday I was planning on going to the movies with one of my girlfriends...to see Big Fish. I usually buy the tickets ahead to save a bit of time but this time I decided not to. I was on the page to buy them not once, but twice and in the end thought maybe I should just wait until we got there. I'm glad we did.
After lunch at nearby Jacob Wirth's, we headed over to the Loews theater down on the common. We were about to go in the front door when we noticed that there were fire alarms flashing and that the entire cinema was standing across the street!! We opted out and went and got the car, thankful (and shocked) that they let us into the garage to get it, despite the sirens and flashing lights. On the way to the garage, we discovered the cause of the fire trucks and the evacuation...a burst water pipe in the restaurant next door.
And so, we ended up antiquing in East Cambridge near my old house. I picked up some 50's black and gold highball glasses that match ones that my Grandma King gave me many years ago. And then I saw it. An old book on a table.
It had a tattered green cover, waterstained in places and a bit frayed. The top of the cover bears the words "A Dictionary of Synonyms." I picked it up, noted the wonderful old print, the inch margins on each page and the words...a perfect source of new poesy, I thought. I thumbed through a little further...and discovered that the book is full of pressed four leaf clovers. 25 of them to be exact. You can't pick up a $4 1884 book full of four leaf clovers and not buy it!!
Afterward I found some of Joe's birthday present, unexpectedly and also the poster that I had been searching for for months.
Plus I got to hang out with one of my favorite people and that's always a bonus.
Lucky start to my year, methinks.
Posted by crystallyn at January 12, 2004 09:42 PM
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