Love Objects: Pinkity Blanket, Mr. Penny, and the Frog Prince, Part I of III

Our favorite things have their basis in how we relate them to people

Photo by Purnachandra Rao Podilapu on Unsplash

Author’s note: I’ve pledged to write one story each day in February about love and I’m challenging other Medium writers to do the same. Take the 28-Day Love Challenge along with me. You don’t have to have started on February 1st. Just start today and count from there. I’m sure March could use a little love, too.

We all have things we love and cherish. It might be an old sweater, a childhood toy, or a souvenir spoon from Lake Winnepasauki. Whatever object you have a special attachment to, it's relatively sure that it's not the object you love. What or who it represents causes us to assign special significance to an object. In this three-part series, I’ll be discussing three examples from my personal experience. Here is the first:

A blanket named Pinkity

The author at age seven. Pinkety blanket is just visible at the left bottom edge of the photo. (Source: author's collection.)

My most prized possession for much of my life was a pink baby blanket. I slept with it, used it as a cape, and wrapped dolls in it. I even brought it to bed to wrap around my shoulders on chilly…