Jewells of Thought

Yesterday I heard on the radio that it was “Eat Chocolate Ice Cream Day.” So that was a pretty good reason for me to go eat some chocolate. A craving for needing chocolate started earlier in the week and so yesterday the intensity for my taste buds was fulfilled.

Women have this essential need for the calming effects of this amazing dessert. In college, my History Advisor and mentor, was constantly being bribed with chocolate. Or so she said! She actually was given a present and I saw it a number of times that last year, I was in school. It was 5 pounds of chocolate. She was really proud of that gift. She was a one of a kind teacher, born in France, but lived here in the states for at least 20 years at the time. When I was trying to get back into classes after my leave from the spring semester I had to get in touch with her about making a class list. I was told she was on vacation. They went so far to tell me she was on a boat somewhere around France.

There are so many memories I have of her talking about chocolate that I can’t not think about her while eating chocolate. Yesterday when I was eating my ice cream with the extra chocolate goodness mixed in she came to mind. Although now my thoughts are a mixture of the good memories with these new sad memories.

The day before my Grandma Rosie’s birthday party, I received my OCU newsletter or rather magazine now. Shockingly, a couple of pages in, I was overwhelmed by the news that by June 5th she and her daughter were killed back in February of that year. A drunk driver ran into their car. I didn’t know her daughter had also become a teacher and was on staff at OCU. It was devastating when it happened and the way I learned of it. I still caught myself wondering how I didn’t find out and just bewilderment at the incident.

So now my thoughts are synonymous with chocolate, but now she’s gone. I had got the news when our President Murray died a blanket letter I think came to every student who graduated. I don’t remember specifically how I found out my Music Professor died Professor Graham it seems like it came from the newsletter but yet it seems like I was notified. I did leave her family a message on the online funeral site. However, this dual death was very much unexpected and was difficult to accept. I guess she seemed so vibrant and like a superwoman to me.

In one of our Ladies Meetings at Fellowship Baptist Church someone suggested we have a Chocolate Day. It just so happened that I had a Chocoholic Cross-stitch pattern I wanted to make for the winner of the best Chocolate dish. I do believe Ms. Craig won and received a framed title Chocoholic. It was fun to have such a crowd as we did that day and enjoy the sentimentality of what Chocolate means to us women.

What is your favorite Chocolate Dessert? Do you have memories evoked when eating your favorite desserts?