Crystal Bowl for cheap
I was planning to follow along on Hope*writers prompt challenge this week, but I'm late to the party! Today's prompt was CONNECT. Crystal Bowl For Cheap I stood at the corner of two dusty roads in that tiny town, holding out an exquisite crystal bowl as an invitation to a car driving slowly by. The contrast of the dirt and the crystal was not lost on me, and as they kept on driving, I was hit by a realization that changed my perspective from that day onward. It had been a lovely fall day that Saturday - the kind of day that started out chilly enough for a hoodie, and ended up hot enough that the old records on display started to warp in the warm sun. As the family pulled out tables to set up and carried boxes from the old bus where they were all stored, we quickly worked up a sweat and had to shed our sweaters. It was our long-awaited estate sale day. My father-in-law had passed away earlier that spring, and in a way I felt like our collective mourning couldn’t really progress ...