You were standing there sorry in the pouring rain

[sovay]

Somehow I have lost my first-generation Sacagawea gold dollar coin which I carried like a talisman in my coat pocket for approaching twenty years. I have no idea what happened to it. I would have thought I'd hear or see if it went flying when I pulled out my wallet or keys, but this afternoon at the post office was the first time I noticed it missing. It must have happened within the last day. The coin was a touchstone; I curled my fingers around it. I know I attach unwarranted significance to objects in that if they are at all important to me their loss feels like just more proof of entropy (nothing lasts, nothing stays, you get to keep nothing, you destroy anything you touch), but I am upset. And I do not want one of the newer issues: I like the panoply of Native history on the reverses, but in D.C. in December the Metro gave me a handful of the newer kind as change and it was immediately apparent how much thinner and lighter they were than mine. Plus it didn't visit multiple states and at least one other country with me. I am consoling myself that if it happened at Temple Israel in Boston where I saw a movie last night with my parents, it will probably count as accidental tzedakah and I'm sure the synagogue can use it, but I would still have preferred to do it consciously, with ordinary money. Today has really not been the greatest of days. I like this macro and otherwise I wish I had not been obliged to get out of bed.

Comments

[strange_complex]

I'm really sorry to hear this. I lost the Roman coin shown in this icon some ten years ago when I had my handbag stolen from my office (I kept it in there), and have never quite got over it. So I very much feel where you're coming from. Like the previous poster, I hope it turns up somewhere.

[sovay]

I lost the Roman coin shown in this icon some ten years ago when I had my handbag stolen from my office (I kept it in there), and have never quite got over it. So I very much feel where you're coming from. Like the previous poster, I hope it turns up somewhere.

Thank you. I am so sorry to hear about your coin! Thefts are especially devastating.

[strange_complex]

Yeah, especially since it didn't actually have much intrinsic value, so probably just got chucked away somewhere. It made me feel like a bad guardian of heritage, as well as a person sad their possession had been stolen. :-(

[sovay]

It made me feel like a bad guardian of heritage, as well as a person sad their possession had been stolen.

I don't think you were a bad guardian. You got stolen from. If it got chucked away, I hope someone picked it up and treasured it. It happens.