I have a skeleton hanging in our living room........better than in my closet..note in the picture she is wearing a boa ....Some people dress their dogs.....I dress my skeleton... even though I consider her to be female ( wide hips),her name is Napoleon "Bone apart".............In my bedroom closet I have a ceramic skull the size of a human skull....and it is a candle holder...one of my prized possessions.....given to me when I was 10 by my next door neighbor as a Christmas gift.No bones about it (you knew that was coming).....I have a slight obsession with the human skeleton.....This interest was born way before I studied bony landmarks in massage therapy school.After all,I was the kid who took real human skeletons to school for show and tell......of course carrying a human skeleton in the back of your car is now against the law.....however back in the early 70's,there was nothing wrong with it..that I knew of.....Anyway,that same neighbor who gave me the skull candle holder was an anatomy professor at the university...and he brought home a skeleton in a box for me to take to school.I did it for a couple of years in a row....I had the best show and tell ever.The bones made me a rock star!
For some,skeletons are a bit frightening and certainly the one hanging in the living room has been known to give a scare or two.
Skeletons/skulls are like the Happy Face of the 70's.....they have become a cultural icon of sorts....there is the whole scary heavy metal tattoo kind of images....then there are the run of the mill or even "happy skeletons" which have been showing up on clothing,school supplies and APPS for your iPhone.The Grateful Dead have a whole brand based on the art of the dancing skeleton. I actually have a water bottle with a smiling skull amidst a background of argyle. Yes skulls can smile!
What really moves me about skeletons is probably what most people fear.The morality of life.....death...the Grim Reaper.......for me,skeletons can bring me around to the spiritual side of who I am....that I am wonderfully made and my bones pulse with blood and marrow and life.
Our bones hold us up and support us....if we had no skeleton within ourselves,we would be like little puddles of people.......anatomically the human body is a wonderful creation supported by an inner network of bones...the bones also protect vital organs like the heart or the lungs.....so in some wierd way the skeleton in our living room,reminds me of God...supporting me spiritually and in some cases holding me up... so that I don't stand in a puddle of the person I am..God is also protecting my heart so that I don't have to stand in a puddle of tears except maybe sometimes...
SO why did the skeleton not go to the party? He had no Body to go with.
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