It's in the genes!

[alexpgp]

It's hard to open a drawer around here without something of interest popping out, as my mom apparently not only kept most of the documents and correspondence she received, but also never got around to filing it properly. Just now, I was vacuuming the furniture in my old man's room, and when I opened the sliding door to a little niche that was on what used to be my mother's side of the bed, I found a copy of Du Coté de chez Swann and a letter I wrote to my mother from camp when I was 15 or so.

I used to behave in much the same way, except I file things in their place, until I got to something of a watershed, where burning a certain set of correspondence was the only way I could see to... does one "achieve" catharsis, I wonder? Anyway, you get the idea.

It's been a pretty slow day. I have, in fact, mostly been cleaning the house and napping, as my deadline for the work assigned yesterday is comfortably later. The bedrooms - except for the one I'm inhabiting - are done, and the den is complete.

I should probably start to pack the car.

Cheers...

Comments

[skipperja.livejournal.com]

We found all that type stuff on the street in front of our old neighbors house when she was moved to a rest home. All her school teacher cards and gifts. Cards from her kids; all those little mementos that let you know the recipient loved the sender.

Hoping all goes well.