Items and keepsakes can have spiritual meanings to us and tell a personal story about one’s faith.
“I really only play my ukulele during church meetings or when I sing hymns so I view my ukulele in association with Christianity because whenever I play it, I am singing a prayer or helping others to overflow, which is the term that describes spreading enjoyment during meetings. When people who are bored in church notice how others are enjoying their time, they are able to feed off of that enjoyment and experience it themselves.”
—Senior Cheryl Wang
“I used to wear this gold necklace every day when I was a child. It had a little turtle on the end of it. The ‘real’ Buddha, or Siddhartha, was the man of self-discovery who figured out the cause of suffering was due to want, so slowly, he ate a grain of rice and a drop of water day by day to enlighten himself and that’s what the turtle represents: the slow journey.
—Senior Brian Chiou