#20 Anniversary Presence

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My beloved and I recently celebrated our twenty-first wedding anniversary. After putting up with me for more than two decades I figured she deserved something special. I checked with the Nobel people to see if they had a category for endurance in a marriage. No luck.

So an award was out. I checked the web to find the traditional gifts for people whose marriage is of legal drinking age. Any guesses? Elegant dinnerware? Fine fabrics? Sweet foods? Nope. Nickel, brass and iolite.

Which raises an important question; what the heck is iolite?

Turns out it’s a shiny purple rock that’s part iron, part aluminum and all cheap. It is officially described as resembling quartz with “a greasy or vitreous luster”. Makes you want to run right out and get a big ol’ iolite necklace for your sweetheart, right?

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