I often found beautiful polished stones of every different color. I thought I was just lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At my cousin’s wedding, when I was about 28 years old, he mentioned, I blinked. He looked confused. “You didn\u2019t know? She\u2019d buy them at a rock shop in town, polish them herself, and bury them just deep enough for you to find. She said it made you feel like a treasure hunter. Said she never saw you smile so big.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I stood there, stunned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All those magical days by the lake \u2014 I thought the world had hidden treasures just waiting for me. Turns out, it was Grandma who made the world magical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I still have those rocks in a jar on my bookshelf. But now, they shine even brighter \u2014 not just because of their colors, but because of the love she buried with each one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I often found beautiful polished stones of every different color. I thought I was just lucky. At my cousin’s wedding, when I was about 28 years old,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“All those times Grandma would sneak off to the lake before sunrise and plant those polished stones… I never understood why she went to so much trouble.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Wait\u2014what do you mean she planted them?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n