Monthly ArchiveNovember 2005
Voyages 27 Nov 2005 12:17 pm
Distant Connections
It’s a very odd feeling when acquiring other peoples possessions “legally” and going through the boxes unwrapping each piece to reveal things I have never seen before, and then coming across something that I remember seeing when it belonged to someone else and realize it is mine now. I feel a strange sense of responsibility.
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Voyages 13 Nov 2005 10:39 am
A Story, A Message.
It has become a cliche’ to say, “if I only had a rich Uncle.” I had an Aunt. She died last summer and I inherited her estate. Although she had a lot of stuff, she was not rich. Years ago I heard the term, “Affluent Poor.” You have seen the commercial of the smiling man talking about all the stuff he has and membership to the country club,then he says, “somebody help me, I’m in debt up to my eyeballs!” The affluent poor has a lot of things but no money. That describes my aunt. She had a lot of stuff. The house was a collection center for items gathered resulting in the deaths of those who went before her. From her mother, my Grandmother, to her husband and her son.
As I searched through the house, packing as I went, a story unfolded, and a message came through. At least to me, a message from a sad story. It didn’t have to be that way. It doesn’t have to be that way.
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