The wedding ring my wife bought for me, my computer, my digital camera, my hot sauce collection, my one-of-a-kind antiques, the few rare and expensive books in my collection, the CDs of the music I love, including the 200 symphonies made by my closest male friend affectionately called Buzzsaw, the metal zebra sculpture I got for my birthday several years ago, the life-sized zombie corpse I made, my plushie zebra named Ezra, the bits of amber I have with bugs in them, the trilobite I bought on eBay, my Hissers (pets, not objects), and the three paintings I did back in the nineties, all the really funny and thought-provoking short stories I’ve written over the years, among many other things I can’t even think of now.
These are all things that define me. Things that show others what I am about, and what I like. We all have special stuff, and this is a short list of some of mine.