Tarnished

Seeing the silverware brought back memories of when I was a young girl and had to polish the silverware at Easter time. Every year, Mom always had a big brunch followed by an egg hunt and invited my aunt, uncle and cousins over for the big day. Back then as I smeared the pink clay-like polish on the blackened silverware, I wondered why don’t we just use our everyday silverware at Easter?

Leap of Death

You raise your eyebrows in apprehension as a man with a parachute strapped to his back takes a running leap. He pulls the ripcord and his canopy opens displaying its many colorful stripes. On each stripe you notice the name of a good work the man apparently had accomplished in his lifetime.