When you discover that you are rich.

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Today it is Andrés´ birthday. Andrés is Dixie´s son and he is living in Australia. I haven´t seen him for over 6 years. I called Dixie today and she said that they had been thinking about me. MY room is for the moment Andrés´ room. And Dixie bought a sofa bed many years ago but in spite of being very expensive I have never seen a worse bed except for foutons. So today the family is gathering for a tiny party for Andrés and Humberto offered to come to pick me up and bring me back. And I started to think about what to give to Andrés that he could put in his back pack. And I remembered my molas. Amola is an artwork made by the Guna (ex Kuna) natives in the St. Blas Islands in Panama. When Humberto and Dixie invited me for a sailing trip, I brought back some souvenirs. The molas are made from several layers of different colored fabrics and stitched together by hand. I brought several with the idea of framing them but I never did. And they are over my sofa arms. I thought now that I could give Andrés one or 2 of my molas. They are beautiful. But now that I look everything online, I thought I´d check how much they were worth. I seem to remember that I had bought each of them for a few dollars. It couldn´t have been more as I don´t have more money. But now, checking online, my molas are worth from US $400 to over $ 600 each. I am rich! So I thought that that would be a wonderful present. Not only it would be meaningful of a trip that was a dream come true but also it was expensive enough to be a very good present. I never gave them a marriage gift although I did lend my house for their marriage. I hope he likes the present. What do you think?