I keep these earrings – without their match – because . . .
After several years and a move to a new house in a new city I’m hoping to find it’s pair.
Because it’s dear to me and extremely expensive? (It’s mostly cheap crap from Claire’s Boutique.)
There’s one lapis earring up there that I liked so much I actually wore it (at least twice) with a different earring hoping to bring back that asymmetrical fashion of the 80s. I lost its pair around 2001.
Perhaps I’ve internalized my grandparents’ depression-era “waste not, want not” philosophy a little to deeply?
I wonder if Joshua over …read more