Shades

The other day I was desperate for working sunglasses and I discovered a pair of Ray Bans that I had found under a lilac bush in a park in Boston over 13 years ago. I had stuffed them in the kitchen junk drawer and forgot all about them. Some part of me must have remembered them. They needed an arm attached, so I used an old Christmas ornament wire to thread the hinge. Then I polished up the lenses. They are heavy and I feel like a 1950's movie star when I wear them. I sewed a protective sleeve for them from a scrap of black denim. I want to be like Rita and Eugene and walk for miles and miles well into my old age.