Restoring Legacies and Treasures
Richard and I will often watch BBC’s “The Repair Shop” ( here ) in which patrons bring their time worn heirlooms to be restored to another time. It’s great to see so many attached to sentiments in our throw-it-out/replace/upgrade it society. I don’t recall having any family heirlooms. My mom had been raised in poorer circumstances with many relics that may not have been considered antiques at the time – certainly not of value either financially or sentimentally. We threw things away and replaced them – though I remember my brother and I both hoarding “stuff” as sentiments. Perhaps even now. But nothing worth restoring . . . I don’t think. I do have a set of scriptures that belonged to my mother. The binding on the triple combination is torn in places and many of the pages have definitely seen better days. But it is a treasure because I see where she has marked certain scriptures and written in the margin. That for me...