Contents of Sally’s Purse, Monday, July 19, 2008
• Pentax Camera (the non-digital kind)
• Seika’s Sunday School craft – a half paper-plate made into a watermelon (on Fruits of the Spirit theme)
• Three books: The Exploits of MoominPappa by Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson, and The Secret Wish of Nanerl Mozart by Barbara Nickel
• Coupon Holder
• Two Chequebooks
• Registration Letter for Portage Avenue Mennonite Brethren Vacation Bible School
• A Postcard for Art show: Art Among Friends at the Winnipeg Art Gallery put on by Community Living Winnipeg
• Two flourescent orange birthday cake candles
• Two girl’s barettes, one yellow and one red
• A letter to businesses to donate items for the Manitoba Japanese Canadian Associations annual Picnic
• Cheque stub in envelope from Manitoba Arts Council for grant rec’d to travel to Newfoundland
• City of Winnipeg Community Services Receipt for Kenji and Seika’s swimming lessons
• Shopping list with chewed gum squished inside
• Boarding Pass stub from flight taken from Vancouver to San Francisco
• Boarding Pass stub from flight taken Vancouver to Winnipeg
• Business card of personal banking rep “Abbie” of President’s Choice Financial
• A postcard advertising Star Lake Lodge with their Summer 2008 Program
• A green tealight
• Program for Seika’s piano recital
• Bulletin insert from St. Margaret’s Anglican Church with little kitties drawn on them in blue pen
• 2 push pencils
• black ink pen
• Copy of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections sheet on the Margaret Avison fonds
• photocopy of an e-mail from Grace Thomson, current president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC)
• 2 sheets of yellow writing pad notes on grant applications to the NAJC
• Passport
• 2 Towne Cinema ticket stubs
• Business card of Heather Conn, “Words on Fire, Works Inspired” for “spirited writing, teaching, and editorial services”
• packet of kleenex
• tube of sunscreen
• wallet
• Levenger notebook with silver pen (purchased from Xmas gift voucher for judging Kiriyama)
• Red strawcovered notebook (given from friend who went to Vietnam)
About the bag itself, it was purchased in a Barnes and Noble in Union Square in San Francisco about two years ago in February when I went to judge the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. It was an emergency purchase. The bag I had before – a smaller, red leather purse bought for me in Italy by my sister – had a thin strap that broke just as I was breaking into a run at the Vancouver airport (while in transit from Winnipeg) to catch a flight to San Francisco. I have a terrible habit of overstuffing my bags until the straps break. When they do, I just go on to the next capacious hold-all I can find.
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