{"id":4701,"date":"2010-12-02T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-24-odds-and-ends-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4701","title":{"rendered":"Day 24 &#8211; Odds and Ends (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/051-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found a round tin with a Norman Rockwell print on the lid and inside was a shrine of sorts to my childhood and teen years.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to part with a toy car, a &#8220;God&#8217;s Nightcrawler&#8221; patch, a Cincinnati Reds ring (which my Dad bought for me at a Reds game back when Pete Rose played for them &#8211; I remember sitting through a game where some drunk guy a few rows up from us continually yelled, &#8220;Pete Rose is a hamburger!&#8221; &#8230; I never figured out if that was supposed to be an insult or compliment.), an old pocket knife, a wallet from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), a little woven art project I entered in some contest when I was 14, and a button that says &#8220;Urbana &#8217;87&#8221;.\u00a0 The Urbana Conference I attended as a college sophomore was the first time I ever considered the possibility of becoming a missionary.\u00a0 At the time it was just a thought &#8230; a daydream, maybe. Here&#8217;s a list of other items from the tin that didn&#8217;t make the cut:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Various ink pens [&#8220;Outdoor Ministries&#8221;, &#8220;Wabash College&#8221;, &#8220;Newscenter 13&#8221;, &#8220;Adam&#8217;s Mark Hotel&#8221;]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>3 Dried up boutonnieres [Labeled as &#8220;Senior Prom 1986&#8221; (lame night), &#8220;May Festival 1986&#8221; (dumbest night of my high school career), and &#8220;Jeanne Kirkpatrick Dinner 1987&#8221; (where Masato Suzuki gave the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. bunny ears for a photo and also told several of his female professors that they looked quite &#8220;arrogant&#8221; rather than &#8220;elegant&#8221;!)]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A single one inch square tile from the Wabash College pool [Where I worked as a swim coach for a year]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A &#8220;Skylab&#8221; sticker<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A live bullet (!) [From gopher hunting in South Dakota]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A pack of sugar from &#8220;The Berghoff&#8221; in Chicago [That must have been the art guild trip where I shared a hotel room with Scott and Larry.\u00a0 Scott dared Larry to strip to his underwear, stuff a pair of socks in the front and step out into the hallway.\u00a0 Larry took the bait.\u00a0 When\u00a0Larry stepped out the door, Scott slammed it shut and locked it!]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A mood ring [It is now just solid black]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A rubber dinosaur<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Miniature post cards &#8211; some from New York City and some of the Columbia space shuttle<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A match book from Mr. Gatti&#8217;s Pizza in Crawfordsville, Indiana<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A couple of name tags from Youth Annual Conference [On the back is listed who went along from my church.\u00a0 1985: Byron Brown, Kate Stubbs and Pat Kyle.\u00a0 1986: Kim Stone, Dawn Stevens, Yvonne Bradburn, my brother Russell, and Marcia Kuhn.]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A card with my Scottish address my junior year of college [Wavell House T21, Hillhead Halls of Residence, Don Street, Aberdeen AB9 2WU, Scotland]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A vial full of white sand [From Florida, I think.]<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The tassel from my high school graduation in 1986<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazing how many memories these\u00a0objects bring back &#8211; and I guess that&#8217;s why I kept them.\u00a0 My kids were fascinated with each little item I brought out of the tin &#8211; and they made off with a couple of things before I could throw them away!\u00a0  It&#8217;s funny how a packet of sugar brings to mind\u00a0the sheer joy\u00a0Scott and I\u00a0shared\u00a0watching Larry through\u00a0the peephole\u00a0as he\u00a0danced around\u00a0in the hallway of a Chicago hotel, frantically pounding on our room door and cursing because he had nothing but his underwear &#8230; and a pair of socks.\u00a0  Also amazing to me is how I quickly vacillate between determination to toss these items\u00a0and reluctance to toss them.\u00a0 It makes it a bit easier to toss them knowing that they are recorded here, because words are somehow just as good (or better) than the physical objects themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a round tin with a Norman Rockwell print on the lid and inside was a shrine of sorts to my childhood and teen years.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to part with a toy car, a &#8220;God&#8217;s Nightcrawler&#8221; patch, a Cincinnati Reds ring (which my Dad bought for me at a Reds game back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4703,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4701\/revisions\/4703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}