{"id":1550,"date":"2014-06-05T21:55:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T01:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2014-06-15T21:31:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:31:47","slug":"lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, in that other lifetime when I had a toddler and a baby, I considered getting my ears pierced. Having grown up Mennonite, when my parents never even had wedding rings, jewellery was a little suspect. I liked pretty things, but preferred rings and things to be small and unpretentious.\u00a0 And so I couldn&#8217;t quite decide &#8212; did I want to have my ears pierced or not?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d almost decided not when, for Christmas, 1979, Volker gave me a pair of opal and gold earrings. I have a fondness for opals, the way they aren&#8217;t just one colour, the colours seem to move inside the milky whiteness of the stone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"amw_galleria_slideshow_1\" class=\"amw-galleria-slideshow\"><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(\"#amw_galleria_slideshow_1\").galleria({\"dataSource\":[{\"image\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2116.jpg?fit=480%2C480\",\"big\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2116.jpg?fit=480%2C480\",\"thumb\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2116.jpg?fit=150%2C150\",\"title\":\"DSCF2116\",\"description\":\"\"},{\"image\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2117.jpg?fit=480%2C480\",\"big\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2117.jpg?fit=480%2C480\",\"thumb\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2117.jpg?fit=150%2C150\",\"title\":\"DSCF2117\",\"description\":\"\"},{\"image\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2122.jpg?fit=480%2C480\",\"big\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2122.jpg?fit=480%2C480\",\"thumb\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/baburkard.com\\\/crochet\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/06\\\/DSCF2122.jpg?fit=150%2C150\",\"title\":\"DSCF2122\",\"description\":\"\"}],\"width\":\"auto\",\"height\":0.76,\"autoplay\":false,\"transition\":\"slide\",\"initialTransition\":\"fade\",\"transitionSpeed\":0,\"_delayTime\":4000,\"_hideControls\":false,\"_thumbnailMode\":\"grid\",\"_captionMode\":\"on_expand\"}); });<\/script>\n<p>These were tiny, quite unpretentious. Hand-made by a man I&#8217;d known in highschool they&#8217;d cost a ridiculous amount of money for the financial shape we were in. They were beautiful. I got my ears pierced.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1567\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lost-and-found\/img_3013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?fit=600%2C550\" data-orig-size=\"600,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?fit=300%2C275\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?fit=525%2C481\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1567\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=300%2C275\" alt=\"IMG_3013\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=300%2C275 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=150%2C137 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=327%2C300 327w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3013.jpg?w=600 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March 2013, in Santa Clara, the evening before I was getting on the airplane to return home I realized one of my earrings was missing. I figured I&#8217;d lost it while playing with Mina. I did a search, but couldn&#8217;t find it. I felt so bad. Those earrings are very special to me; after all these years, to have lost one&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I was so relieved when Trina sent me a message the next day that she&#8217;d found my earring! I had to wait till my next visit to California to retrieve it but that was not a big deal, as long as I got it back!<\/p>\n<p>Well, recently again I realized one earring was missing. Again I looked for it. I found the back, but not the earring itself. Again I felt so disappointed. But then I decided that I could take the one remaining earring to a goldsmith and have him\/her make a matching earring for me. No, it wouldn&#8217;t be the one Volker gave me, but I&#8217;d still have a set.<\/p>\n<p>That evening, as I stepped on the mat in the bathroom I felt something under my foot &#8212; Yes! it was my earring! Relief flooded me again. I was so grateful that I had the original back.<\/p>\n<p>But I wonder, should I put them away to ensure I never lose them? No, I don&#8217;t think so. It may happen some day that one (or both) are lost for good. But I never put them on or see them in the mirror without remembering the man who gave them to me and the love they will always represent.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1568\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lost-and-found\/img_3016\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg?fit=405%2C543\" data-orig-size=\"405,543\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg?fit=223%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg?fit=405%2C543\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1568\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg?resize=223%2C300\" alt=\"IMG_3016\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg?resize=223%2C300 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg?resize=111%2C150 111w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_3016.jpg?w=405 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, in that other lifetime when I had a toddler and a baby, I considered getting my ears pierced. Having grown up Mennonite, when my parents never even had wedding rings, jewellery was a little suspect. I liked pretty things, but preferred rings and things to be small and unpretentious.\u00a0 And so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lost-and-found\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lost and Found&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-family","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}