Thought this would finally be a post-holiday, lazy Sunday with nothing but our family mahjong session and dinner, but today was the only day I could schedule my amber jeweler's visit. He is not in my Friends List and has no idea that I've been undergoing dialysis. For the past few months he'd been sending me photos of amber necklaces and bracelets, none of which, thankfully, appealed to me. Our relationship has been long and strange. He is a relative of a very popular movie and TV actor. Whenever I buy something from him, he showers me with freebies. He also tried his hand at oil painting, gave up, and gifted me with an entire sack of unopened oil paint tubes--these are the tubes I used for my latest painting titled _Descent of the Holy Spirit_.

And then...

Last week he sent me a photo of an exquisite  piece I could not resist.