Day 6

Friday, September 6, 2024

Durso Park

For the past few months, I’ve been wearing my grandparents’ wedding rings. They’re a little big so I have to wear them on my middle finger and I have to stack my grandma’s on top of my grandpa’s or else his would fall off, but I’ve really enjoyed wearing them. It makes me feel like a small part of them gets to experience life with me and it makes me think of them often. Like tonight I walked through a park and passed an older couple dancing in front of the park district building. They were playing music from a speaker with their dog tied up next to it. I saw a beautiful sunset and stopped to watch the colors change as the sun dropped below the horizon. When I saw my rings, it made me think of what my grandma might have said about the dancing couple and the sunset. It always seemed like she was excited about the small things in life and I find myself trying to embrace her sense of wonder.

I like to think that they see me wearing their rings and that it makes them happy, hopefully happier than they would be if I kept them locked away in my jewelry box or a safe.