Bedroom Meme
Nathan tagged me for this meme, which evidently consists of listing what’s on your bedside table, and originated with Rachelle.
I don’t actually have a bedside table, so I’ll settle for listing what’s on my side of the bed. This consists of two bedside fire safes, a bedside book shelf, and the floor.
In the two bedside fire safes: Lots of legal documents, too dull to list. Pencils. Family mementos, which currently include:
- A cassette tape of an interview with my grandmother
- a Bible which belonged to my great-grandfather
- a Red Riding Hood cross-stitched by my father when he was young
- More Dad mementos: photos, camcorder tapes of a family gathering a few years before he died, and of the family at his house after the funeral, a CD of childhood photos of Dad, a copy of the memorial flyer
- a family photo of Joel’s family that I have to get back to my mother-in-law, now that we have scanned it
On the floor: a camera bag, and the following books: Scar Saloon (a poetry book by a cool Iranian woman), Washing a Language (another poetry book), How We Got the Bible, The Oxford Dictionary of Popes, Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh, Sick Caesars.
On top of the bedside bookshelf: Rubber bands, tweezers, cough drops, photo albums, a frame, finger nail clippers, a checkbook, some sort of dental implement belonging to Joel, a baseball cap reading “A Man and His Truck: It’s a Beautiful Thing,” and books. These books are: History of Art, Second Skin, The Evening Sun, and a guide to Bangkok.
In the bookshelf: Novels (C.S. Lewis, Graham Greene, Edith Wharton, etc.), history books (about the Holocaust, the Japanese internment, some nineteenth century murder, etc.), cryptography books, bedside medical books, Call of Cthulhu books, a Spanish/English dictionary, a scrapbooking book, self-help books on sex and anxiety (but not both at once), Bibles (Douay-Rheimes and a Tanakh – the other Bibles are elsewhere in the house), pseudepigrapha, Faith and Practice of Pacific Yearly Meeting, a heart healthy cookbook, and books by Thomas Merton, Ellen Goodman, and St. John of the Cross. A first aid kit and a Sims CD.
I’m not covering what’s on Joel’s side of the bed. Which is a lot.
Now, I am tagging: