Thursday, October 20, 2011

Packing

When I moved into this apartment two years ago, I unpacked my boxes and was left with one shoe out of a pair. I am not a shoe collector, so I have two pairs of winter shoes and two pairs of summer sneakers. This was  my favorite pair of black comfy winter shoes and I looked everywhere for it. It drove me nutty! This apartment is small. There aren't that many places it could be.

As I was packing up to leave, I came across this solitary shoe. I set it aside, planning to throw it away rather than waste space packing it. Then I pulled an empty box down from the top shelf in my closet. Something rattled around inside.

The other shoe! Reunited after two long years.

2 comments:

  1. Ha ha... serendipity, indeed. Perhaps it's a metaphor for something Greater which lies, now, within reach.

    Of course, this could all be rubbish and you may well lose another "half of something" in this move too.

    Though a tendency to lose half of anything could, in itself, be symbolic of *something else*...

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  2. Seems like the shoe staged a walk-out. It obviously never wanted to be in NH.

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