Been thinking a lot about families today, especially the families of Sam and of Tommy. Sending much love and strength your way. May infinite beautiful memories and the love of your family and friends sustain you.
An Aries (Who Knows Some Stuff)
Been thinking a lot about families today, especially the families of Sam and of Tommy. Sending much love and strength your way. May infinite beautiful memories and the love of your family and friends sustain you.
Memories
You can never put a price on those–they’re worth everything.
I have a picture of my Mom as a little girl ….
Can you see the person she became when you look at it?
My father’s paintings
I love those, too! I wondered if you’d say the trunk.
I have his CSM Dress Blues.
I’m so glad. Do you also have the flag from his funeral?
I don’t know if this counts as history, but a great uncle made me a link of chain he whittled from a single piece of wood. I don’t know how difficult it is to do that but when I got it in elementary school, I decided it’s something that belongs in a museum.
I love that! I have a wooden ball whittled from inside a square frame. But I bought it when I was a middle schooler in Underground Atlanta, which used to be a very hippie trippy place to go. I don’t even know if it still exists, or if it does, it’s probably all trendy and hipster.
I think having something like that from your great uncle is terrific.
memories, photos, the iron bed, the china cabinet, the die-cast truck for which Craig’s truck was the model… any THING that means anything to me is from someone else… there is nothing of monetary value…
i often wonder which of my things will be meaningful to others.
I’m always sure when I go, whoever’s left will just back up a truck and toss it all. Then I plan to haunt them. =)
My grandmother’s wedding ring, inscribed July 28, 1904. It was given to me because my birthday is July 28th. I used to love wearing it as a teenager until one day, riding down a country road with my mother, I threw an apple core out the car window for the critters to enjoy. The ring went with it. At 50 miles an hour I screamed “STOP”! She did. A search of the roadside found the apple core – and the ring right beside it.
Oh, man–that was a heart-stopping story! I’m glad you found it–it’s wonderful that you have it!
I have my mother’s wedding band. I was really happy when my sister told me I could keep it, because it means so much to me.
I think my Mum has most of them, although, technically, my great-grandfather’s sea chest is mine. And the lampshade she gave to me that hung in Nan and Grandad’s hall throughout my childhood. And some stuff that belonged to my brother.
I love that lampshade.
My sister has a trunk of my grandmother’s that probably has the same sentimental value as the sea chest–which sounds like a very cool thing to have. And like you with your brother, I hold on to some things of friends lost too soon.