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a particularly entertaining sight.
Eventually, one of them got the idea of carrying the
mirror up into the heavens to the angels because they must
be the most beautiful things in existence and the mirror
would make them appear uglier than anything else in the
world. The mirror was big and heavy though and as the
trolls flew closer toward God with it, the mirror began to
reflect the love and beauty as horror and hate and it started
to shake from the intensity, laughing so hard at the
contrasts, that it slipped from the trolls' hold and tumbled
down, back to the earth. Upon impact, it shattered into a
billion tiny pieces. The winds, who do not understand or
discriminate between good pollen and dangerous sharp
glass, lifted these pieces up into the sky and carried them
throughout the whole world.
Now some of these pieces were so tiny one would
need a microscope to see them, but they each contained by
themselves all the magic of the original mirror. And this is
when they really began to cause trouble for human beings.
Some of the pieces of mirror were so tiny and so sharp that
they could get into a person's eye and distort the beauty of
the world forever for that person. Since so much of the
world is beautiful, now for these poor people who got the
glass in their eye, the world became mostly frightening and
scary. They hid in terror from the dangers they perceived.
But the most serious problem, the most dangerous for all,
was when a piece of the mirror flew into a person's heart.
It turned the person's heart to ice. It is said that some of
these pieces are still flying through the air today.
My first memory of my Aunt Pat is actually a memory
of a picture. The 8 x 10 in the gilded silver frame was kept
in my grandmother's spare bedroom on the top of a high
dresser until my grandmother died and my aunt took it. I
do not know where it is now, since my aunt has since
divorced her husband of 25 years and I do not think she
keeps it displayed in her new condo. In the picture is a very
blond and stylish young woman on her wedding day,
flanked on one side by her attendants dressed in pale teal-