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Monday, August 30, 2010

Memory Coffee shop

There is a small coffee shop, hiding inside an unknown ally. The owner is a quiet woman who seldom talk to anyone else, just like make coffee and some desserts attentively. Even though the owner is wordless, the delicious food and her bright smile always attract her neighbors. One day, Charlie, five years old, the son of neighbor book store's owner, running in breaks the quiet air.
" Nancy, I wanna buy a piece of Chocolate Cake!"
"Hi, Charlie. Oh, how can you buy the Chocolate Cake? This is an empty wallet." Nancy takes over a light brown wallet and said.
"Looking carefully Nancy! This wallet is from Mongolia, did you remember last moth my father go to Mongolia?He is back now, so I wanna buy my favorite Chocolate Cake!"
"Oh, Charlie, you can eat Chocolate Cake anytime as you want." with saying Nancy takes out the Chocolate Cake to Charlie.
"No, No! I wanna buy it! buy it! It's equal, I can use my wallet to swap your cake, it's equal!" noisy Charlie.
Nancy doesn't know what she can say, then agree with the little boy.
watching the little boy goes away, Nancy begin thinking of "swap". Why not open a place in the coffee shop to exchange the things? Every exchange object have to have the equal value story ( however, the equal value is depended on the owner). There must will have a lot of interesting things in the future.

Another day, Nancy clears up a cabinet, brings out her objects that include an African wooden woman sculpture which was bought by her last year when she travel thought Africa; a wooden music man playing a drum, which was also bought in the Africa; a little green glass bottle which carried her childhood memory; an old used wood scale rule, she got it from her elementary math teacher; a square seal affixed, which she traveled China and got; a series of Singapore dollars that her mother gave to her; a piece of pattern cloth which is with her since she born and the last one is a model house with a front yard, Nancy bought it in Mexico.
The first day of Nancy decorated her cabinet, a young woman comes.
"Morning~"
"Morning, what's these things?"
"Oh, they are waiting for exchange. You can use one of your memory object to swap one of these things, because every one of those have their own story."
"That's sound good! Let me have a look." the young lady walks toward the cabinet and leaves her eyes on the green glass bottle. " This glass bottle looks very familiar to me, I must have ever seen it before, but I cannot remember now..."
"Oh, really? I can remember I got this little bottle from one of my childhood friends, when she moved to other place with her family, she gave this bottle to me. And she called it..."
"Fairy Godmother's wish bottle!" the young lady shouts. " You are Nancy!"
"... Jessica?"
"Yea! What a small world! How big change you are! I can't recognize you!" Jessica said with high spirit, lighting everything.
"Me too, you changed a lot!" Nancy cannot hide her happiness, a big smile shown on her face.
"Wow, you still keep this glass bottle!"
"Yes."
"Nancy, I will give you a surprise tomorrow!" the surprise that Jessica means it a wooden boat, which Nancy gave to Jessica as the return of the glass bottle. The few feathers inside the boat were Nancy made for Jessica. When Nancy saw the boat, both she and Jessica were laughing again.
The second day of cabinet opened. An old man comes.
"Morning, Mr. West."
"Morning, Nancy."
"Hazelnut syrup Latte with milk cake?"
"Yea, you know it." Mr. West laughs noticing the cabinet,"Nancy, you get something new!"
"Oh, those are old things with little history."
"Ha ha, you still keep this rule!"
"Yes, sir. I cannot forget it, you used this rule inspired my math gene."
"Ha ha, foolish girl."
"Mr. West, do you have some memory want to swap?"
"Oh? Memory..." Mr. West follows into recall, takes three chestnuts out of his pocket, watching them for a long time.
" Mr. West, your coffee and cake."
"Oh, thank you." Mr. West takes one sip,"Alright, I want to use these chestnuts to swap something."
Then, Mr. West begins talking about her daughter and the chestnuts.
The third day of opening cabinet. A middle age woman comes.
"Morning, how are you today?"
"Good."
"What can I help you?"
"I wan..t  a large cup of Latte without ice."
"Sure."
"You have a lot of ornaments. Bu..t what are these chestnuts for?"
"Oh, those are from an old man, he told me the story of his daughter with the three chestnut, I really like the story and keep the chestnuts." Nancy said with making the coffee.
"Ha ha, when I was a child, I usually went out hunting with my father, and every time I would bring a bag of chestnuts back home instead of preys. So my father always laughed at me." with saying the woman's eyes are covered by the gloom.
"Oh,really? However, Mr. West is not so lucky, he has been out of touch with his family for many years, since the Hurricane Katrina blamed his house..."
"Mr. West..?"
"Yes." Nancy looks up again, seeing her customer's eyes are filled with question and pleasant.
"Do you know Mr. West's first name?"
"Roy."
"Oh, my god! Do you know where he lives?" the women asks hurriedly.
"I'm sorry, I don't know that."
"Oh... Does he usually come..?"
"Every Tuesday morning."
"Thanks God. Thank you too!"
Even though, knowing that Mr. West will come to the coffee shop on the Tuesday, the woman still comes everyday. From what the woman said, Mr. West probably was her father! The guess was turned to be truth. The reunion family gave Nancy a handmade wood sculpture which was made by Mr. West, the wood head sculpture was made recording to Nancy big bright smile.
Everyday, there is something new in the coffee shop. Something happy, something moving. You can see that, there will be something beautiful to Nancy in the future. Someone holds the mysterious Indian love wood dish, coming to the coffee shop. There must be something good will happen.
 

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Inventory

1.women's head, hand-make,soft wood,white
2.women's sculpture, hand-make, hard wood,black
3.French chestnut, three
4.Chinese square seal affixed
5.Minnesota wooden boat with feathers in side
6.Mongolia wallet
7.Indian little wooden dish
8.Little glass bottle
9.Wooden music man with a drum
10. Singapore dollar
11. wood scale rule
12. Spanish exquisite house with a front yard
13.A piece of cloth with patterns.