Books, computer keyboards, cameras, lenses, lectern, running shoes, coins, airplanes, bicycles, subway trains, honey bees, airline boarding passes, GPS unit, passport, scales of justice, maps, hotel key cards, do not disturb signs*, farms, nature trails, and city landscapes. Each of these has a meaning or connection to my life. At various times other items would be included, or excluded.
What objects and places paint the portrait of our lives? If you were commissioning a family crest, what elements should it contain? What are the most important one's. One of my favorite books explains that legacy is how we want to be remembered.** Part of that is how we paint the portrait of our lives by the things and experiences that mean the most to us.
Immortality is being remembered. How will we be remembered? Unless we are famous or infamous, we won't be remembered for long, a generation or two, and all of us will fade into the dust of history.
What objects represent you?
* I have a collection of hotel "Do Not Disturb" signs collected over the past 25 years.
** How to Say it to Seniors, by David Solie (available on Amazon)
I was struggling with a topic for today's post, this one has been in the working drafts folder for a couple of years, and it's time was today. I am glad it waited patiently.
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