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) graduated with a major in history and minors in studio art and data science. After working in campus ministry for a few years, she’s getting her master’s in public humanities at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She has a benevolent dependency on tea, is always down for a game of pick-up basketball, and would love to have you over for pancakes sometime.
