Ursula, the Keeper of Lost Coins

The Master brought in the inside plants back inside. Rapunzel II, Bethany, and the newbie Fortune enjoyed the rains and some sunshine outside but now it was time to get back inside the apartment. Walter noticed something peculiar. All the plants are in pots but not all pots have plants in the Apartment. There was one pot where my playmates the Pings lived along with other bric-a-bracks that the Master gives me to play with. There is also this other pot that does not house anything. It sits in the apartment with all the other precious things. It seems very important to the Master.

Its a painted pot with a picture of a lovely lady with sunlight tresses, sky blue eyes, and a long slender fish tail that shines like a bright moonless night illuminated by a million stars of different colors-reds, green, yellow, violets, and blue. As I learned, this is a picture of the Ursula, the Mermaid keeper of lost coins.

Ursula, the keeper of Lost Coins

Coins are very inconspicuous. Oftentimes, we have so many that you hardly notice that you dropped one. Sometimes, they are so precious that we hide them so valiantly that we don’t even know where we put them. 

Coins magically roll out from the city, along the roads and streets. Inconspicuously avoiding being trampled by people who are too busy to notice. Rolling alongside cars and bike, even buses. Sometimes stopping with the traffic. They roll and roll so many of them that if someone only looked down and hard enough he would make a fortune. 

All of them make their way to the seaside and beaches so that the waves lead them to Ursula. 

Ursula wakes up every morning and collect coins from her garden. She finds then in between the cockles, seashells, and starfish. Along the rows of seaweeds, corals, and anemonies. Like a lady tending to flowers in a garden. She picks them up and places each one in a purple ermine bag very careful not to disturb the sea creatures resting alongside them. The mindfully considers each one. Each coin is unique to Ursula. 

Ursula's Ermine Bag 

Ursula brings all the coins from all over the world in the magical cavern where she lives. She has so many purple bags in her magical cavern some of them bursting with coins. Ursula has never bothered to count or sort the coins. What for? To her they are all the same. Gold, silver, platinum or copper all of them will serve the purpose of bringing good cheer to people who deserve them the most.

If you’ve ever walk along the sidewalk and suddenly you spot a coin. That coin came from Ursula. She gives coins to people to cheer them up. Sends coins to wish you good luck. Or when you feel like it’s your lucky day, she gives you cause to shout out “Hey, a lucky coin. It really is my lucky day!”

Some people miss the magic. Some people get it. Some people will look at the coin Ursula sent them and rate it for it’s value. What a lovely feeling it must be to find one of Ursula’s coins. To be reminded that someone somewhere is thinking of you and sends you a happy thought. That feeling that a little magic has gone your way.

In the apartment we also have a bowl where the master keeps his loose change. I always wonder how many of those coins came from Ursula.