So often, it's when you visit a store looking for one item that you exit carrying something else you bought instead. Or multiple somethings.
I went for a long run today, because after a week of work with little exercise, I needed to move! Also, autumn has officially arrived in Portland with regular downpours, and I'd rather get drenched on foot than on a bike. My first goal was Trade-Up Music, where I found a tuning wrench for a curious little psaltery-harp I snagged at a thrift shop. Then I thought: Why not hit up Village Merchants? They rock, and they might have running shoes.
I found a couple pairs of shoes, but not in the price or type I wanted. But they also had perfume bottles! Visit enough froofy, overpriced antique stores, and you learn that if you have any interest in perfumes or potions, perfume bottles at one or two bucks is not bad, especially if they have a nice-smelling perfume still inside --- some of these can be off-the-market, or even have real collector value. Due to my interest in scents but limited ability to buy perfume ingredients, I got a few of these, including an amber and an Eastern European rose essence.
I also found a small green flint arrowhead that I felt might make a good magical object link for Amazon protection spells, as with the Moonshadow candles. I think a lot of us right now are a bit afraid, and wishing we could do more to protect the rainforest from this latest grave threat of mass destruction by fire. (Can other members of my own species please finally learn that "far right" ideals and leadership typically equate to "far wrong"? Gods, am I tired of it! Fat chance, too: I doubt humans ever will learn, until gods like Aliria help send us to extinction by making us reap the rewards of our own short-sightedness.) Next to magic, of course, the best protection spell for the Amazon is money . . . in the right places.
Tonight, I tuned my "new" harp. I'd been fearing a mis-sizing, but it worked
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