Marking Time
After an adult life of painful and disappointing moments, a woman hears about a crazier
woman at the farmers’ market who can put each of those moments into a string of beads
that have a power more than mere jewelry.
This bead marks the moment you told Tom Merchant (high on your first-ever vodka shots and
the teeth-jittering adrenaline of being out—even just as part of a group—with Tom
Merchant, the most brilliant, amazing guy you’d ever met) that you couldn’t care less
about your practical engineering major, that thing that your parents were both so proud
of.