this is the story for that ruby...
some people believe that halloween night it the only night of the year that spirits who have passed can reconnect with the living....that’s what the lost souls...day of the dead...halloween...whatever you want to call it.... is all about.
it was the halloween after tessah died and i had done a shrine in the parade of lost souls...it was a nice thing to do....although it made people sad...it made me feel better.
it was also around the time i was fighting city hall to try and get her birth certificate and it was making me feel like her short time with us never happened. (they wouldn't issue one b/c her death certificate was signed before the birth certificate...something even larry campbell couldn't even fix..but i guess that's another story) anyway.... it seemed important to do something for her to recognise her existence and kept me busy since i hadn’t returned to work yet.
after the parade sean and i came home. we didn’t bring kimba b/c he is scared of noises and crowds and we really hadn’t had him long at that point. so sean took kimba for a walk around the neighbourhood.
there were still a few kids around....anyway while sean was walking kimba he found a ring. a tiny gold ring...the smallest i have ever seen i think. it wouldn't even fit on my pinky...with a small ruby. i could tell right away that it was real. it was hanging from a small gold chain that had broken. sean showed it to me and we just looked at each other....we know what each person was thinking...but we didn’t say it.
sean put the ring away and put signs up all around the neighbourhood “childs? ring found...halloween night”
we got calls but mostly from kids with the parents prompting them in he background. none where the owner.
anyway i forgot about that ring for awhile until my birthday of the next year...and tessah’s due date...forever entangled with my birthday. sean had the gold melted down to make a ring with the ruby to remember her by.
happy halloween.
:)
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