Tickler Chain

Into the master bath she walked. She turned the bathtub knobs then scanned the bottles and boxes of scented bath oils and bath bombs set along a wooden cabinet. She noted the small bottles of essential oils that lined a smaller cabinet just below a window and stepped near to examine them. Tea Tree, Chamomile, Buddha Wood, Blue Tansy, Lemongrass, Lavender. Estelle knew which ones to use and she reached for the small vials of Lavender and Tea Tree. Reaching back to her days in Kentucky, she remembered as a child her father’s girlfriend who came by extolling the benefits of essential oils, often rubbing them on the cuts and bruises the then little girl, Estelle, always wore.