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went to an estate sale this weekend and this was pretty cool to look at --- an organized collection of shells by location/year. working on slowly building up my own collection of trinkets so i can also be a super cool old person in the future
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this is my shell collection. my mom use to collected them too. she filled our home with sea glass and clam shells— something i regretfully regarded as tacky when i was teenager. i spent my childhood by the ocean but we moved to a landlocked state when i was 10. i thought her collections were born of an inability to let go of the past, something i now understand as a means to preserve the connection to it— a gentle reminder.
four years ago she started forgetting things. small things at first, the name of my highschool best friend or where she’d left her keys. eventually, she began to forget my tattoos and how to read. her world is full of gentle reminders now— we do everything we can to help her not forget. the collections help, serving as tangible memory links. i think my own collection was born out of this. i’ll surround her with iridescent mementos if i have to; i want her to remember.
collections aren’t frivolous. sometimes, their meanings are revealed to you as they grow.
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i was so so sad at work yesterday and i guess my coworker heard it in my voice and then asked me to share the highlight of my day (but phrased it in a way that his day was so mid that he wanted to hear some good news) and i didnt rly have anything much so i said how i made myself a sandwich for lunch and i usually dont eat properly so it made me happy. and then him and my other coworker just got super excited about it and asked for all the details and even when i was like its only a veggie sandwich nothing special they hyped it up and it rly made me feel important. i still felt down for the rest of that shift bc i was in my own head but at least in that moment they really made me feel better and i was grateful for their efforts.
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