kaylarudbek

I still miss the gray and silver Cross pen with my name engraved on it that was an award for being a National Merit Scholar, and the blue rosary that I had as a kid with the smooth sky blue sort of oval beads. I lost both I think back in college and I suspect that they were stolen (I had a lot of things go missing freshman year). Also my Advent wreath/candle holder which I haven’t seen since I moved to Virginia over a decade ago, and my Electricity and Magnetism textbook which was lost in my move to Virginia.

I bought myself a very nice blue and silver rosary this last week, and it has smooth beads that look like silvery blue pearls, Oddly enough the Our Father beads are miniature Miraculous Medal style (missing the text on front) and the joining piece aka the Memorare piece is a Miraculous Medal with front text in Latin.

(and yes I have my great-grandmother’s rosary in its Notre Dame case, two olive wood ones my brother from a visit to Jerusalem, two gifted from my mother and one of those is dark blue spike crystals and one is green St. Patrick’s themed, one from Padua that my dad gave me, two plastic ones from my grandparents which I think we had up at the cabin, but I wanted to replace that lost blue one as I like different textures at different times)

I suspect that autistic people tend to gravitate towards having prayer beads as they are a great fidget and meditation tool. Bead textures and sizes and overall feel and sound are important (everyone likes looking at the flashy crystal beads but they aren’t always the most comfortable in actual use, although they are good for meditation before falling asleep as they are spiky enough to keep me awake for a while longer before falling asleep)

Also, apparently some people made/make rosaries with uranium glass beads which glow very nicely in the dark (but I would test them with a Geiger counter first and I probably wouldn’t give one to a kid or a cancer survivor).

yeah, reverting back to folk Catholicism in order to spite the MAGA heresy and make the chaplain blow a gasket (I’m halfway tempted to start a collection of challenge coins with saints and pagan deities and display it at work). I have also bought various saints’ medals and I need to put more charms and medals onto my silver bracelet..

(And why have I had mild to severe nausea for the last couple of months? If I was 5-10 years younger I’d be taking a pregnancy test)