Pet columnist, author, and believer in miracles Mary Ellen “Angelscribe” Kenny, began her day at Ambleside Park dog walk in West Vancouver, but continued on missing a precious piece of jewelry for the rest of the afternoon.
At around 6:30 p.m., after visiting the bank, her mother’s care home, and a few shops, Kenny noticed her favourite necklace was no longer around her neck.
In a panic, the first people she called was her prayer group to help her will the piece back into her possession, then to her friend, an international psychic, who had deemed the pendant “blessed by angels” when it was purchased 20 years ago.
“And then I made the lost signs that said, ‘Lost pendant: it misses its owner,’ because I was going to put it up at the dog park,” she said.
The next calls were made to the police, the bank, and the care home to see if it had been turned in. “I just called everybody, because I figured… if it was going to come back, it was up to me to put as much effort in to make it happen.”
After a restless night, Kenny got up early to start the day’s search, beginning back at the Ambleside bulletin board to post one of her lime-green lost posters. She raised up the sheet of paper with a thumb-tack at the ready, surveying the best place to put the sign among the rain-soaked postings on the board.
“I was moving the piece of paper around going, ‘nah, that doesn’t feel good,’ and I literally worked my way straight across the eight-foot board to the far side and said, ‘oh, I’m going to put it right here.’ When I did that, where my finger was pointing it was like a little voice said, ‘look here.’ So I looked to the tip of my finger and there it was, hanging on a bent rusty nail.”
Kenny was overjoyed to find the silver pendant, shining with amethyst and aquamarine stones inlaid, hanging above her head. She felt the need to tell someone immediately. The trail was quiet at that time of the morning, but she spotted a woman sitting in a parked car and tapped on the window. When Mary Ellen opened her palms to reveal the treasure, the woman in the car was astonished. She was the one who had found the pendant in the sand the morning before and placed it on the board hoping the owner would return to claim it.
“I’ve found kind, open people just one right after the other up here, and intelligent females to talk to. It’s been wonderful,” said Kenny, who grew up in the area and has been in North Vancouver helping her 92-year-old mother for the past few months.
She currently lives in Oregon with her cats and writes a column for her local paper called Pet Tips n’ Tales. She is also crafting her own illustration of this story for her third Chicken Soup for the Soul contribution.
