When one returns to one’s parents’ home, one must take stock of the various relics, detrita, paraphernalia, and bric-a-brac on the walls and in the closets. But no worries about actually sorting through anything… there’s always next year.
- 2015 wall calendar turned to September (1)
- Dried out dry erase markers (4)
- Old jewelry box (1) with puka shell necklaces (3)
- Twin bed with ancient plastic tubs holding who knows what underneath (1)
- Ancient plastic tubs holding who knows what (3)
- Big, beautiful dresser that I’ll actually move to wherever I’m living once (if) I’m living somewhere that I know I’ll be living at for a while (1)
- T-shirts in said dresser from various events and teams (13)
- Articles of parents’ clothing hanging in the closet (baker’s dozen)
- Old art supplies (ERROR: INCALCULABLE)
- Closet-shelf tchotchkes (23)
- Handmade model covered wagon from 4th grade book report on the Donner Party (1)
- Raggedy Ann dolls watching me as I sleep (2)
- Lanyards from various summer camps and youth conferences (8)
- Old journals: Full (5), Half-full (7)
- School yearbooks (6)
- Middle school basketball leadership plaques (2)
- 2014 Academic Discipline Award, Biblical Studies (1)
- Spinny noir-looking desk chair (1)
- Closet that I turned into a reading nook that I wish I had used more than I did (1)
- Framed painting from my great-grandpa (1)
- Young Adult fiction book serieses (8)
- 1,000 point basketball (1)
- Mason jars (3) marked “Save,” “Spend,” “Tithe”
- Age of Empires III computer game (1)
- Schindler’s List LaserDisc that I bought because I thought it was a LP (1)
Christina Ribbens (’19) studied history, studio art, and data science at Calvin and public humanities at Georgetown. She now lives in the part of Virginia that’s almost Washington, DC where she helps award grants to arts nonprofits. She takes a lot of walks to admire the landscaping in peoples’ front yards, mostly listens to British comedians’ podcasts, and likes to make friends via sports.
