Make me feel my age and mortality.......
Sometimes I think the stuff owns me instead of me owning the stuff. A
friends father just died and left a house FULL of stuff...I'll call it stuff
and
not junk or collectibles. Collectible and junk is in the eye of the beholder.
They had estate sales for three weeks to clean the house out, and still
ended up throwing things away.
I know I already have more car projects than I can ever finish, but I'm
still dreaming of trying. Heck, I cant even get the Midget started and I
think
it's only out of gas.
My other collectibles, junk...'er stuff, mostly antique western stuff, but
some military, guns, and woodworking tools, and artwork done in anothe life
time. Who knows if my grandchildren will want any of it?
Robert Houston
In a message dated 10/12/2006 12:15:24 PM Mountain Standard Time,
twakeman@razzolink.com writes:
> And the older
> and more mortal one feels the more urgent it becomes to start more and
> more stuff on the "To do before I die" list. And my list is getting
> longer every day.
I'm getting just the opposite. There have been 3 people die around me
(none I knew closer than aquantience) during the last couple years.
I've watched their treasures treated like so much excess crap to be
disposed of and collections scattered to the wind, some even to the
dumpster. I've seen people scam the good things that the deceased
expected to go elsewhere and have decided that estate dissolution is not
a pretty sight.
I'm questioning the value of collecting things and of owning things I
don't use and enjoy a lot. Each item we have owns a piece of our time
to care for it. What is the good of maintaining something that will be
tossed to the winds after our deaths if it is not something we use and
enjoy today?
So if anything, I'm cutting down on having possessions for the sake of
having them. I guess my 'do before I die list' is focusing less on
owning items or vague future projects and focusing more on going places
and doing things. Gonna do one of these years type projects have
largely fallen away along with lots of items that might come in handy
one of these days.
Watching what happens to things after death changes ones perspectives.
TeriAnn
Robert B. Houston
Texan in New Mexico
63 TR4
As he stared at her ample bosom, he daydreamed of the dual Stromberg
carburetors in his vintage Triumph, highly functional yet pleasingly formed,
perched prominently on top of the intake manifold, aching for experienced
hands, the small knurled caps of the oil dampeners begging to be inspected and
adjusted as
described in chapter seven of the shop manual.
Dan McKay
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