This weekend my two brothers and I, and our three wives spent three days at my mother's house, clearing it out so it can be sold. It turns out my mother seems to have kept a great deal of the things that came into her life. I now have at my home many boxes of family photos, recipes, newspaper clippings, letters, cards, funeral documents and so forth. A brief look through some of this indicates much of it is things I have never before seen.
So, over the next weeks and months, I will be spending time examining, scanning, and filing away these small scraps of a long life.
