Hearts of Stone, Forever United

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And to go with this new image, more rocks, and an old story:

After my husband Bob died and I moved to Mexico, I started finding hearts everywhere on the long walks I took every morning. The first one was on the side of a cow, the other on the forehead of a calf. I found plastic hearts and the imprints of hearts on shoe bottom impressions pressed in the sand. Then I began to find heart-shaped rocks. It was uncanny.  Messages, perhaps, or perhaps just my increased consciousness of anything that could be a sign. This continued for some time, but as my initial crushing grief lifted, so did my insistence that these were messages.

Then, at least a year after his death, on a driving trip enroute  to the states, I returned to one of our favorite places—Bahia de Los Angeles in Baja California.  As I stood tossing rocks into the ocean, I suddenly felt my wedding ring slip off and go flying into the water. Stupid, stupid!  I berated myself, and knowing it was futile, I nonetheless went wading into the surf that was spreading out on the sand, then deeper into the water to where I imagined the ring had disappeared.

What were the chances? I searched for five minutes, then ten, and I was about to give up when a retreating wave wiped the ripples out of the surface of the water and there below I saw my heavy gold ring set in diamonds and lapis lazuli.  As I scooped it up, a rock that  lay buried in the sand beneath it came up in my hand as well, and after slipping the ring onto my finger again, I was about to toss the rock back into the water, when I happened to glance down at it and saw that it was in the perfect shape of a heart!

 

For Stream of Consciousness Saturday: Rock

14 thoughts on “Hearts of Stone, Forever United”

  3. slmret's avatarslmret

    A wonderful story of hope and encouragement!
    On another note, I’m learning how to use the Reader, and occasional comments are coming through as emails! Thanks for your encouragement!

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  4. Smitha V's avatarSmitha V

    Hi Judy, This is Smitha from NaPoWriMo. I thought I was following your blog and then realized I wasn’t when I saw a post by another blogger listing their favourite blogs ( I can’t remember who it was).
    This is a beautiful story/memory. I’m glad I chanced upon your blog today and got to read it.

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