So I have this key. It doesn't look like much, but it's probably my most favorite key--that is, if a person is allowed to have a favorite. It opens my grandmother's desk, which is my oldest possession, age-wise, and the possession I have had the longest (aside from my baby book and my Floppy Dog). I know my dad had the desk, and gave it to me when I was in 3rd or 4th grade (I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but I think it was "given in lieu of child support"--why else would a little kid be allowed to have it?). I loved it immediately--it has these pigeon holes for important stuff, and a door on hinges that opens up to form the desk top. It's not a large desk, so it's been easy to move from place to place (Des Moines to Boston to California to Indiana), and from room to room--Erika "possessed" it for a while, but now it's mine again. Sadly, I don't use it--there's no room for a monitor or a printer or a keyboard, and although I think it's tough enough to handle a little weight, I don't want to chance it.
For my birthday, Karen gave me a key cover that looks like a gnome head--it's awesome. I decided to "class up" my desk key, and you can see the results
<----over there. Perfection.
As I threaded the newly-coiffed key back on to the keychain, thought of the old meeting the new, I wondered what my grandmother would think of Karen. To be sure, there were women who loved women back in my grandmother's time, and she might have known one or two. I admit I didn't know my grandmother very well, but I do know that she was daring--she cut her hair in the 1920's, causing quite a scandal as she was a MOTHER! She raised my liberal father and his Union-leader brother to be accepting of others, so with that in mind, I've decided that Grandma Kate would have liked Karen.
Thus endeth my musings on this Friday night......
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