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\"\"<\/a>Most Sunday mornings, I go to a meditation center where I join a small circle of people in chanting and meditating. After the program, we have a community breakfast.. We\u2019ll have savory cereal, bagels and cream cheese, fresh fruit, maybe a coffee cake, and chai; steaming hot black tea with brown sugar, milk, ginger and a blend of Indian spices. Two Sundays ago, I remember sliding along the bench towards a spot where I could enjoy my bagel when Holly spoke up.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh Deb, those are really pretty earrings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Donna looked up at me and jumped in.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, that color of blue is beautiful. It goes great with your top.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jim thought he\u2019d add his two cents.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re very unusual. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen a pair like them. And you don\u2019t wear jewelry all the time, do you?<\/p>\n

Kathy, who was smiling quietly after what I surmise was a very deep meditation, decided to weigh in as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes. They are a striking color of blue. They look like peacock feathers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dozen or so heads around the table looked at me and smiled.<\/p>\n

I was going to tell them \u201cthe story\u201d of my earrings, or as much of it as I could think of. I\u2019m not sure when I got the pair. Maybe someone gave them to me. I couldn\u2019t remember. If I did buy them, I must have gotten them at a street fair, not a store. I don\u2019t buy jewelry much, and I certainly don\u2019t spend a lot of money on baubles. I really do love the color of blue, and yes, they look a little like peacock feathers, which I am very enamored with. I have a friend in Michigan who raises peacocks, and I took a collection of fanned out beauties home after making it out to Plymouth for her wedding last fall. I stuck them in a Styrofoam block and put them in a handled shopping bag and made sort of a dried arrangement with them. The earrings have the coloring of peacock feathers, but the design looks a little Southwestern, don\u2019t you think, like a Native American decoration? I was in Sedona last spring. While I was there, I bought a small rose quartz pendant in the shape of a heart, but I am sure I did not get this pair of earrings then. I\u2019m a winter, skin complexion-wise, and dark blue seems to look good on me. I have another pair of earrings made of glass that my mother got in Spain. They\u2019re the same cobalt blue color. But I don\u2019t know where they are\u2026..<\/p>\n

I took a deep breath. I think I unconsciously pulled my hair behind my ears; showing off my earrings while my brain was doing everything possible not to acknowledge positive regard.<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sometimes, taking a compliment is no small thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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