Museum Clues

I've been visiting more museums these times than the past years of my life. I am amused that just when I started becoming a full-time mommy, I had more time and opportunities doing the things I've only dreamed of when I was single and had all the time and liberty to do things myself. Ah- the paradox of doing nothing!

Among those "things" is visiting museums, have coffee conversations with interesting people, shopping for my leisure, keeping house, writing, painting. And I do these things I have Julienne strapped to me on a carrier. I have company! Only that she just coos and stares at people and luckily, doesn't cry in public.

At the museum last April- I- we came across this glass table with a lady's paraphernalia back in the days. Fans, combs, bonnets, fountain pens, a child's shoes. Exactly my fancied things.

 Who owned them many years ago? Was she a beautiful, long-haired woman, probably a landlord's wife? What about the pens- did she love to write? And they had a child who got baptized on an Easter Sunday and that same day the landlord was shot by an unknown gunman.... and the gun man happened to be his wife's former lover?

 Stop me before I incubate a whole new fiction.

Location: Sorsogon Museum and Heritage Center, Sorsogon City, Philippines