The Packing Room (25th June, 2012)
The Day Before the Forty Days....
In my house, I have a 'packing room' - normally it's the guest room - but right now I'm preparing for a journey of forty days' duration (plus a few for good measure) where I'll be the guest in many different places - a guest of both friends and strangers.
In the packing room, there is a suitcase packed neatly and completely - I'm a pre-packer, a prepared packer. Beside this already full suitcase is a box. A box about 25x20x10cm - the size in which you might find a perfume gift set. But I've shaken it - this is no perfume gift set.
It's tied shut with a silver ribbon. And here's the killer for this pre-packing, prepared, no surprises kind of birthday girl about to set out on an adventure - I've been handed it just before leaving - it doesn't fit in my suitcase - and I'm under STRICT instructions not to open it until I am on my journey.
Will it be worth toting around with me in my (thankfully) large handbag on each of these forty days? What's in it? Would anyone really know if I opened it before I left...........?
The Day Before the Forty Days....
In my house, I have a 'packing room' - normally it's the guest room - but right now I'm preparing for a journey of forty days' duration (plus a few for good measure) where I'll be the guest in many different places - a guest of both friends and strangers.
In the packing room, there is a suitcase packed neatly and completely - I'm a pre-packer, a prepared packer. Beside this already full suitcase is a box. A box about 25x20x10cm - the size in which you might find a perfume gift set. But I've shaken it - this is no perfume gift set.
It's tied shut with a silver ribbon. And here's the killer for this pre-packing, prepared, no surprises kind of birthday girl about to set out on an adventure - I've been handed it just before leaving - it doesn't fit in my suitcase - and I'm under STRICT instructions not to open it until I am on my journey.
Will it be worth toting around with me in my (thankfully) large handbag on each of these forty days? What's in it? Would anyone really know if I opened it before I left...........?
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