I Tried To Weigh My ... Footprints ... Today
By Gloria Faye Brown Bates/aka Granny Gee
(My Photo ... my Footprints :)))
Dusty ... I looked around, deciding to get the little duster I kept for removing dust off the furniture.
Dust was everywhere. It was understandable as we live close to a busy, country highway. Farm equipment, trucks ... traffic.
I dusted all off ... I was glad to have it done. That's the one thing I 'hate' to do .... dust. I am the type of person who wants all to 'stay just as I make it when I clean up ... clean, 'perfect'. Of course, it doesn't.
I walked into the bathroom to wash my hands. I was looking in the mirror at my hair ... when the thought came to me ... I'm going to weigh. I should weigh more often, I thought.
I closed the door to get to the black, glass scale behind it. I stopped just as I almost closed the door. Amazing, I thought!
On the black glass scale was a perfect set of footprints! Small footprints ... my footprints! I stood there staring at them ... a silly thought came to mind. How could I preserve them? Who would I preserve them for? I laughed to myself ... you only do that with a child's footprints.
The footprints were so perfect there in the dust ... on the black glass scale; I didn't want to just dust them off ... I wanted to at least do something special with them. I mean who ever gets to see perfect footprints left ... on the scale?
I decided ... I would weigh them. I tapped my big toe on the edge of the scale to make it come on. I watched the zeros ... waited to see how much my footprints weighed. I can tell you firsthand ... my footprints didn't ... weigh anything!
Colors As I Go
grief
(32)
only child
(4)
Scary
(3)
Boiled eggs
(1)
Distrust
(1)
Don't call me Faye
(1)
Dying
(1)
I hate to be called Faye
(1)
I'm afraid of the dark
(1)
Middle age woman
(1)
Pain that reaches the soul.. can't be seen
(1)
Running
(1)
Where did my youth go?
(1)
dying in a beautiful way
(1)
life is fragile
(1)
light on my path
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my son
(1)
And now you have a photo to keep forever ;)
ReplyDeleteNever thought about saving adult footprints!! Does sound interesting doesn't it? I wonder if you put melted wax on the scale and let it dry to become like a hard plastic, would that work to preserve the footprints? Well, it was a thought! Love, Ms. Nancy
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