I Am What I Wore

Item:  Skirt   Color/Fabric:  Turquoise and Royal blue, cotton   Designer:  Odille  Where Purchased:  Salvation Army   Years Owned:  1.5

It has been a somber sort of day.  I’m not sure if it is the fact that I didn’t sleep well last night, or if I’m still recovering from my mysterious illness on Sunday, or if I’m just depressed because I still have not managed to complete my Christmas decorations.

It also, most likely, has something to do with the fact that I have been thinking about Pearl Harbor all the day long.  It started this afternoon, when I saw a picture on the internet; until then I had forgotten what the date was.

And I started to think about last year, when we visited the Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii.

I didn’t know that it would be so enormously powerful.  In the beginning I really thought that I would not feel much.  We…