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A loved one is very unexpectedly and very quickly dying. I will see her for what will probably be the last time at Thanksgiving. She is very weak and has already withdrawn from life a great deal. Dark room, not eating, a great deal of pain, little conversation.
I love this person tremendously, and I want to give her one last gift. I want to give her something small, beautiful, intricate and shiny. I want to place it by her bedside for her to find, I don't want to give it to her and have it be obvious that "this is the last present you will ever get from me, you sweet dying person, you". I want her to go back to her dark little rabbit warren of a bedroom after Thanksgiving dinner and find a pretty little object that she can hold in her hand and admire for being pretty/shiny/intricate/interesting. It can have moving parts or not, it just has to be small. Really small, something that can fit into her hand.
Right now she has a dinosaur mobile hanging over her bed, she's really into ninjas, and my inspiration from this comes from Sufjan Stevens' "Casmir Pulaski Day", kind of.
I would have posted this anonymously over at that other place, but that doesn't seem to be an option right now, so I am asking the bunnies in a more public forum to help me to find that special last trinket to give to someone who has been very dear to me and who I am already missing very much.
Thanks in advance. I am a bit blinded by the grief right now to even know what I am looking for, I can't even picture it in my head, I am looking to you dear bunnies for inspiration and suggestions. You've always been so good about that, and I love you for it.