Jan 12, 2022
3 min read
In Defense of Items
Why I love my stuff
When I was young I thought my keepsakes resonated so heavily with memories that anyone would be able to understand why I kept them. I carried this belief until I had to clean out my mom’s place after her death.
My siblings and I went through her stuff. We were lucky in that our parents had downsized from a three bedroom house to a two bedroom apartment. Then, after our dad died, our…
