A box of old photographs with faces still young and a little brass key that fits nothing I own.
There’s a 2-bit stamp that’s worth something I ‘m told, here in a drawer by the telephone.
I don’t know why the wind always blows, blows the cold to my front door
Or why bandanas are red and sky is blue, or what makes me keep thinking of you.
Don’t Know Why - MadDogs
Everyone knows about that drawer that collects all the odds and ends. Everything from a metro card with 30 cents still on it, or a little brass key that fits who knows what, a 35mm film cartridge - still in the can, to an unopened roll of Rolaids.
No longer needed but not quit forgotten, most come with their own flashback. Of course we have the intention of cleaning house one day but that’s as far as it gets. After all, what’s the hurry? Mementos and ephemera have their place.
The nice thing about it is you can pick up any one and start a time thread. Maybe one from the earliest years, when you ate your first ice cream cone or blew your first bubble. At that age there were still a lot basics to learn and a lot of good things that were happening naturally. All part of the healthy growing process.
This happened just by playing outdoors. All this activity was helping build bones and muscles, and building coordination and agility that would help with every day tasks.
And then there was mom, telling you to eat your vegetables and drink your milk and take your vitamin. Sometimes it may have sounded preachy but she knew what she was doing. The body, at that age was growing fast and needed lots of nutrients.
But things change. As we get older the body starts to slow down and it becomes a matter of providing the body with the chemicals it can use to manufacture special enzymes when illness comes knocking.
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