Heirlooms

I love heirlooms (a valuable object that has belonged to a family for generations.) I grew up with a love of history, handed down from my parents, and cemented by my historian husband. Most of the things in my home have a historical story attached to them, and therefore are treasures. But maybe the best heirlooms are the people themselves, or the memory of them. And so, old photos have great meaning for me. Those people that I knew, I remember with joy, and those that I didn't know, I think of with curiosity, wondering just what in me may have come from them.