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August 30, 2008 |
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Jameson with a Shot of Salt Water
FOUND by Mark Storhaug
in Pacific Palisades, California
I took a walk on the beach on President's Day last year. It was after a storm. I often find interesting things that wash up on the sand, usually plastic items or cigarette butts that wash down from the city in the storm drains. This day I found a soggy message in a pint-sized Jameson bottle. I wondered where it might have washed in from, maybe Tahiti or Korea. No, turns out it washed up the coast 3 miles from the south. Here it is.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
this is a lifetime channel movie waiting to happen.
I think we all know what the "missing piece" is...
It looks like the date is written with a different pen from the rest of the note.
"And if I don't see ya in a long, long while I'll try to find you left of the dial."
That is all.
Betcha the writer took drafting/mechanical drawing in high school; nobody prints like that by mistake.
Actually , this find just makes me sad.
@ feeling: same here. i thought every comment would read the same. i guess some people got beyond the sense of the loss and the beauty of the love pretty easily.
Really beautiful. I can imagine the writer sitting in his lonely hotel room, drinking the little bottle of Jamesons, and smudging his words with his tears.
This is a way of letting go; a way of moving on with life, an affirmation of love shared that still goes on.
I think I'm having a bit of a Stuart Smalley moment.
We aromatic herbs can relate to the word, "bittersweet." The person is glad that the suffering of the beloved is over...but oh the ache they leave.
As a friend of mine said, you do survive, you do heal...and when you realise the pain of loss is fading, you feel angry with yourself that you CAN live on. But you do.
I hope it was just the message that ended up in the ocean, and not the writer.
I feel an overwhelming sense this was written by a woman...a very depressed woman on the date of her beloved's passing.
I like how s/he put the *MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE*.
This is so sad! Wow.
Impressive find... I worry enough about catching Hepatitis when walking around a beach saturated with drainage water and garbage, let alone fishing a piece of paper out of battered liquor bottle. better get to the doctor, mark.
And of all the exotic places a Jameson bottle would come from, why would you imagine Korea?!
A find has never made me cry before.
I think it's a woman writing to a woman because of the heart-shaped exclamation mark at the end.
This is a note from one sister to another (Jeri). They used to drink coffee and Jameson as night caps after a night of partying. After Jeri's untimely passing - breast cancer? a car wreck? - she was cremated and her ashes scattered into the Pacific, perhaps from the Santa Monica Pier. Since then, when Jeri's sister feels the need to talk to Jeri, she sends notes to Jeri via Jameson bottle.
Send a message in a bottle http://tinyurl.com/5ld5wz
I hope the person who found it put the note back in the bottle and back into the water where it belongs.
At first I thought it said "Dear Jerk,"
That would have been a nice touch.
Thanks. I needed this cry. What a beautiful find.
This needs to go back to the sea. It was apparently meant to float forever for the soul it is addressed to.
I feel like me above...
nice hotel
I think it says "Dear Jer" as in short for Jerry. The writer upturns the last stroke on her R's and maybe just went a bit long on that one. Maybe started to write JERRY, but decided to stop at JER, which is what she liked to call him. I think a girl wrote it to a guy, because of "sweetie" and the heart on the exclamation point.
I thought this was too too sad when I made the comment about the two inks late last night. But now I don't think it's so sad. Jer is lucky to have been loved, and the writer is lucky to have loved. This is a good thing to remember when we start taking things for granted.
I think this note is to Teri not Jeri. This person doesn't cross the J in Jesus, but if you notice the word "trust" above Jesus, the t looks like a j.
...er, unless it is just not trust, so never mind.
So, after the scary-Jesus drawing from yesterday's find, then Jeri is in awe of a bug-eyed Jesus in heaven.
I love the Santa Monica Pier. Nice place to throw off a Jameson bottle with a note in it.
@terrie...
I'm not sure but it looks like its written "must" not "just" or "trust" ... can anyone make out that word better?
And if you look closely the J in Jesus and Jeri look the same, but are smudged from the rain.
Heartbreaking.
Adult version of
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1048
and just as sad.
'As fascinating as the view is here, you must be in awe with Jesus in heaven'
The other bit I couldn't make out at first is
'I'm glad you no longer hurt'
That makes my heart hurt.
This is sad find indeed. Am I the only person to find it curious that the writer still calls the person Sweetie in this note?
this is my all time favorite find
oh, how heartbreaking....