The One Thing...
/Recently I shared a little peek at my bedroom - really it was the wall and the collected objects on the shelf and in response to a question a friend posed I shared the most important object I own. The One Thing I’d save if I needed to…
The answer is this little print. It’s a street scene of Edinburgh, Scotland my mother Rita gifted me. It means so very much to me - the fact that it’s Art of Architecture - and that Rita understood what I loved and brought this fully framed piece back in her suitcase from her travels - it’s everything! and it tickles me to think it cost £4.99 in 1992.
So I started asking friends “Would you share a photo of the one thing you’d save” I quantified the question saying it was an object not a living being.
So here’s what they would grab above all else.
Melody Borghesani: It would be this painting of my mothers! She painted it when she was 59 she’s 85 now! She painted three of them and I was lucky enough to get one! I’ll always cherish it!!!
Aileen Grodzinsky: I’d grab Lucy’s baby doll Carolee. Not exactly a grand heirloom family passed down item answer I know. But it’s just the 1 thing that immediately came to mind. It’s Lucy’s security blanket. Her most cherished possession. And it’s a doll which feels at times like a real person in this family. So it would be a devastating loss and one that we could not get over.
Jessica N. Rhodes: This question you asked me about my most special object was really difficult to answer! To be honest, I don’t think I’d take any decorative object if my house was threatened, I’d probably take photo albums of family pictures instead, but that’s a boring answer. So if I had to choose a most precious object it would probably be this oil painting my dad found for me. I love that the bright greens are unexpected, the light looks like it’s glowing, and that my dad knew it was something I would love when he saw it.
Cynthia Schenck Shirey: I used to think if my home was threatened that I would grab my jewelry or a huge box that holds so many of our family photos. Then we lost our son in 2018. I found this unfinished stippled work in his art portfolio. It now hangs where I can see it many times throughout my day. He struggled the last three years of his life, and he started this piece in an effort to deal with one setback after another. It is my most valued possession, as it symbolizes his unfinished life, his unfulfilled hopes and dreams.
Alison Sheffield: The book Stephen altered and gave me when he proposed. It’s a beautiful art piece and I love it. Also, the rest of the proposal was a bit of a disaster so this is extra special.
Mariana Silveira: My best friend (who was trained in fine painting in Russia) made it and gifted it to me on my birthday about 5 years ago. Antonella was seven.
Michele C. Strauts: I thought long and hard about this and I would try and save as many pieces of jewelry as possible because those are the most precious and sentimental objects to me.
Thank you so much ladies - I appreciate each of you accepting the challenge!
I can’t close this piece without sharing this image from October 2012. Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on us in New Jersey and the Edinburgh street-scene was in the closed green bin you see behind my husband in our diningroom.
Til next time friends be well!
