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SUMMARY:Sculpture\, Candlesticks\, Diamonds\: Mamas and Vaginas
DESCRIPTION:My friend Somers Randolph carved the green stone piece on the wood and marble table in my front hall. Peered at from one direction it brings to mind the head of a mother and baby. If you turn it up side down\, it looks like rather vaginal. Right side up\, some children see a snail. I show it like I see it\, the embrace of Mama and babe.              Somers is a Princeton grad who lives in Santa Fe with wife Hillary and daughter Comfort. He is very tall\, falling somewhere between my six foot five husband and my six foot eleven and one half brother-in-law. If I am remembering correctly\, Somers once lived in a teepee on some land around Princeton and he went to Exeter before arriving in New Jersey.\n                 My husband’s family still owns a farm out near Andrew Jackson’s home on The Tulip Grove Road. We buried the woman who birthed me on the Ewing farm property in 2000.The service began just before daybreak. Courtney Little sang a song that he and I wrote for the occasion. It had to do with asking Eve to speak to Jesus on behalf of the deceased. All gathered scattered magnolia leaves. After the ashes were placed in the ground the grave was sealed with cement and Somer’s sculpture was placed to be the monument.\n                The monument looks something like a broken infinity symbol. The last time I went to visit Bettie Branham Randall Reilly’s grave sweat bees stung me. Somehow it seemed inevitable.\n                Nestled behind my Somers Randolph sculpture are a pair of candlesticks. Metal and enamel\, these odd modern candlesticks\, have center discs that turn to reveal a choice of color.They replaced a pair of fancy brass candlesticks that looked the same from every direction. That pair\, given me by Bettie vanished when I had the good sense to tote them out the door and leave them in life’s way.\n               A generous friend\, knowing everywoman should have a pair of candlesticks to welcome people into her home and to remind her of the duty to re-light the candle of her own femininity\, gave me the pair that now sits with Somers’ sculpture. The diamond pattern in the background behind my candlesticks reminds me that the simple objects friends make and give are this life’s jewels.\n
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