"Modern Moai"
Another trip to the University of Arizona. This time for the South West Native Arts Show and Sale. We bought matching rings to celebrate eight years* (in July) of togetherness without discord, of peace without harsh words or recriminations, of mutual support and domestic tranquility. the ring are being prepared by Fernando Benally, a Navajo silver worker. Fernando explained the symbolism. His explanation prompted me to comment that the rings represented a complete spiritual first aid kit. He laughed. He'd never thought of the design quite that way. His ain't cheap but we're worth it.
The rings are destined for the right hand ring fingers to balance the set we already wear since the fateful day we decided to take advantage of cheaper medical insurance together ... cheaper than it could have ever been singly. Matching custom made rings seem to be our nod to matching "his and hers" bowling shirts.
Given that we got wedding rings when we married and now, another set of rings to commemorate a bunch of years of contentment, that leaves enough fingers to maintain the tradition for another 90 years (at least) before we run out of fingers.
The rings should be ready by June.
We also took the time to go through the exhibit at the Center for Creative Photography ... an important exhibit for me in that it compared the images of the Pictorialist school of photography with the approach of the f16 group in San Francisco. They represent two schools of thought that are constantly fighting with each other when I approach photography.
"Geometry"
"Palms and Brick" - U of A Campus
"Man on a Mission"
* or 10 years of being together (that would be like last January) - take your pick. Edit: 12, actually - we had to sit down and figure it out because neither of us was really sure how long its been.
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