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Staff Inside Beads & Things Trip to Uncle Bucks Drepung Gomang Tibetan Monks Open since 1990 serving Southeastern Ohio and beyond with beading supplies and instructions Sharing our love of beads and teaching basic beading techniques. From back left to right: Quinn, Chrystie, Phil, Des, Audrey, Joey, Rachel, and Jill. Fall 2002 From left to right: Robin, Audrey, Helen, and Chrystie. Summer 2005 Unstrung by Helen Weaver Horn 10/26/2001 The After Life, could it begin in something like this quiet little store I enter with my mother's broken string of beads? The walls are hung with strands of red, brown, turquoise, lined with shelves of labeled bottles. Are brightly colored bits of former lives all disassembled, sorted, waiting here? I hand a kindly woman my small crumpled envelope. If only I could reconnect my mother with her wits, her wisdom, scattered and unstrung. At ninety-three she asks again what I just answered, utters dire suspicions, rants and whimpers, grips my hand like iron. Here everyone is gentle. I can tumble out her crystals on a channeled pad, arrange them from biggest down and string them peacefully. The woman helps me bend the wire to fasten on the clasp. About me, golden ambergris, and wampum, richly carved and burnished trading beads. I feel how ancient, elemental, is my mother's will to deck herself in glowing colors, magic shapes, her will to wear them even when she goes to bed, run her fingers over them - her rosaries and worry beads, her charms and amulets against all spells. This ordered place breathes out a blessing, gives me hope that all the precious qualities which scatter as we fall apart will re-collect somewhere, still luminous, and gather into something wholly new.

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