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Maybe they just let me turn my gaze back on the past instead of keeping always on the present or future. But they were uniquely mine years ago and the sense of love and responsibility for these children of mine recalls a time in my life that was overflowing. It is not that they are not mature, good, decent people now. It is like that also with photos of my boys in their youthful days, when I can see them, feel them, as they were. That film glows brightly again, rescued from the dimness of time and age. Still, they mean that my parents resonate within me once more, in proper perspective, caught in the film of life that plays over and over in my mind. They are not imbued with some gift or magic. I am not sure why objects my parents touched mean so much to me. When I place it on the tree I think of her, of past Christmas celebrations, and smile, warmly. Mom loved Christmas more than anyone I have ever known and she still gets to celebrate it in our home every year with us. After she died I inherited it, or swiped it, and each Christmas it is the first ornament on our tree. It became less rounded, a bit yellowed, but year after year took its honored place on her tree. Each Christmas after that, up until we had to make the horrible decision to place her in a home for Alzheimer's sufferers, it was, by her decree, the first ornament to go on the tree each year. Mom declared it was the most beautiful one she had ever seen. It was transformed into a Christmas ornament. I cut off a piece of dark blue, velvety pipe cleaner, bent it, and stuck it in the ball. The second object, a small (four inches in diameter) styrofoam ball, that I carved out of a cube of styrofoam in Sunday school when I was five. It still contained some artifacts from his use and whenever I chanced across them, I smiled. I should have ditched it long before my wife gave me a new laptop this Christmas. It has become increasingly slow and unable to keep up its out-of-the-box speed as well as the speed with which data is now transmitted, something for which it was not intended. When my last laptop died, around 2008, I switched to this full-time. When he died I inherited it and have used off and on ever since. The first, Dad's last pc, has just been shut down and is being put out to pasture. Right now there are two such object in my immediate world. Or spark memories that bring them back, if just for a mind's eye's instance, madeleine-like. Objects that make me feel their presence.
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It is about how their lives live on, for me, in objects. This post is not about how they lived or how they died. I had them with me in life much longer than most people have their parents.
#THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY MEANING ISM FULL#
They had both lived full and fulfilling lives.