North Star Golden Ruby Adventures.

Trix — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:46:53 +0000

Shimmering golden seas spanned the globe. The last of the afternoon’s sunshine spilled through the nearby window, highlighting the globe slightly, understatedly. My eye was drawn to it repeatedly. A story certainly accompanied it. It occupied a space in a home packed to the brim with such items, each clearly given floor space because of rich memories: Balinese doors from a family home of decades past, walls of wooden African musical instruments, prestigious community awards stacked many frames deep against the baseboards and mountains of travel books earmarked and filled with scraps of notes protruding from their borders. It was a home filled with mementos of many adventures. One would spend days exploring and still miss something.

This visit I picked the globe, with ruby red crystals dotting countries, to ask my hostess about.

“Our kids gave it to us for our 50^th anniversary. The rubies mark each of the countries we’ve visited,” she explained as she gently spun it counter clockwise “Oh! There are a lot of countries we’ve visited since then,” she exclaimed.

Add the task to a very ambitious to-do list!

I was the guest of a woman who graduated from a Chicago law school in the mid-40’s – 1940s. Though in love, she at first resisted moving to Oklahoma. “I wasn’t sure I could live in a segregated community,” said the Chicago native. Her two female classmates in law school – both young African American women.

Her Tulsa bred suitor cleverly proposed with a challenge. “Marry me and change it!”

It was a marriage that would launch a lifetime of marvel and incredible contributions. And the globetrotting hasn’t begun to stop!

calculated risks – An Unmarried Woman

North Star Golden Ruby Adventures.