/ˌsen(t)əˈmen(t)l/
adjective
of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.
I tried to find an actual picture of the one my memory conjures about ice tea spoons but couldn't find one. Maybe it is so impressed in my memory that I have thought it must be an actual picture somewhere.
The picture is of my Grandpa Ashley and his glass of ice tea, always nearby and always with ice cubes in it and the spoon in it. The ice tea spoon. Long handle, teaspoon size - always present, at least in my memory. So present that I grew up with ice tea spoons in my childhood home and then had to have them in my home when I married. I never really thought about it or wondered about it until just recently. I was stirring sugar into a glass of ice tea with the ice tea spoon and the memory of my Grandpa and his always present spoon hit me. And I was flooded with nostalgia. I was transported back in time to the picture my memory holds.
Such a silly little item - an ice tea spoon. But isn't that what sentimentality is all about? It's found most often, I think, in the smaller silly little things.
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