Discovered Gifts

While in my parent's attic, years ago I found a dark brown, tattered, leather box and wondered what strange gift it might bestow therein, as I released the two brass locks. Inside, were grandma's paperweights- two rocks, a lantern-like desk lamp that lit her page for stories she had crafted through old age, and fountain pen, well used, to scribe her years- her past and present- there for me, onstage- through gifts of manuscripts- I held with tears. June 21, 2020