I’ve really been missing my purple reading glasses. I bought them about a year\u00a0ago, along with a purple wallet, a purple neck warmer, and a purple headband.<\/p>\n
Some of this purple binge came from the poem, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple<\/a>…” by\u00a0Jenny Joseph. Why wait until you’re old? Purple is the color I associate with creativity and a certain freedom to not care what people think.<\/p>\n Purple makes you feel like having fun.<\/p>\n I’d noticed this effect two years ago, when I bought some yoga toe socks that were purple. When I wore them, I’d laugh, and dance around showing off my toes.<\/p>\n But I’d lost these glasses somewhere in the rush of hospitals on Nov. 15<\/a>. My brown reading glasses work fine, but I felt like I’d lost part of my spirit with the purple ones.<\/p>\n Today, Tom and I came back home for the first time since my aneurysm. The house looked normal, for the most part.<\/p>\n The two turkey burgers that I’d been cooking when the rupture flooded my head were in the refrigerator, where I’d asked Sara to put them. A pile of forgotten broccoli sat in the microwave, turned to mush.<\/p>\n After a long look, and a shudder, I tossed this food off the deck and into the woods.<\/p>\n I prepared to smudge the house<\/a> – burning mugwort to purify it from any lingering evil spirits.<\/p>\n Then I saw them.<\/p>\n My purple glasses were on the kitchen floor, under the lip of the drawers next to the sink.<\/p>\n I often wear them on my head. They must have fallen off and gone skidding across the floor when laid down and collapsed.<\/p>\n Seeing them there, askew but intact, was a shock. It brought back those minutes of terror in a flash.<\/p>\n That I lost track of my purple glasses that way was a sign of how bad it was.<\/p>\n It’s like seeing your totaled car after the accident. The moment\u00a0when you know what you walked away from.<\/p>\n I’m glad to have them back, intact.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 2014, for the year I bought the purple stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve really been missing my purple reading glasses. I bought them about a year\u00a0ago, along with a purple wallet, a purple neck warmer, and a purple headband. Some of this purple binge came from the poem, “When I am an old woman I shall wear purple…” by\u00a0Jenny Joseph. Why wait until you’re old? Purple is … read more Lost and found<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317],"tags":[36,485,594,592,89,593,504],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty","tag-36","tag-aneurysm","tag-fun","tag-glasses","tag-home","tag-purple","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6847,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions\/6847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}