My Father's Things Are More Than Clutter — They’re Memories of a Life Lived
But experience is less likely to teach us how to bid our dearest possessions adieu. And if it were to? We wouldn’t welcome the education. For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces
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“We aren’t the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.”
Gabrielle Zevin • The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel
He said, it just seems like it doesn’t make sense to get rid of all of — he paused — this . He was gesturing vaguely to something like our love, or our history, or the life we had built together, and I’m not sure if even he knew exactly what he was talking about, but I knew what he meant. Some people spend their whole lives looking for a good story... See more
Rayne Fisher-Quann • against narrative
Imagine a little girl entering our world at home in her mother’s bedroom. Blood, sweat, tears, and joy accompany the arrival of this beloved child. Years pass. The girl becomes a woman who inherits the house. Her mother’s room becomes her own. Time transforms the woman. Soon she is aged, wrinkled, elderly, dying. She asks to die at home, knowing th
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