Auction Finds - Do I bring spirits home with me from auctions? (0)

3/09/10 •

I always wonder if the items I bring home from auctions hold the spirits of the people who once owned them. I wonder if bits of their spirits remain in the clothes they wore, the collectibles they touched, the photos they had taken of themselves.

As I comb through box lots or clean single items, there’s [...]

Auction Finds - A trial, a Nazi guard & a soldier’s letter (0)

3/08/10 •

I was reading an article in my local newspaper yesterday about a trial in Munich, Germany, of a man accused of helping to murder 27,900 Jews at a Nazi camp in 1943. It reminded me of a 1945 letter I had come across last week among my auction finds.
The letter was from a doctor-soldier recounting what he [...]

Soul Rhythms - Righteous Mind with Rev. Cynthia T. Turner (0)

3/06/10 •

This has been a season of things breaking,  about to break, or crippled to the point of  being broken. The gutters above my porch. The check engine light on the car  again. The railing  outside my mother’s door. And the Bruno Stair Chair Lift in my mother’s home. Perhaps that’s the one that hurts the most because it is designed to carry my mother.    
It’s [...]

Juggling Act - Giving up honey buns for Lent (0)

3/05/10 •

It’s been two weeks since the start of Lent and there has been no dessert for my daughter and me. No Girl Scout cookies, even though we’ve been selling them to others. No ice cream. No honey buns.
I haven’t eaten honey buns for many years but my daughter loves the sugary, icing-topped  pastry. She enjoys [...]

Auction Finds - Recipes, cooking & George Washington’s slave chef (0)

3/05/10 •

We’ve all collected recipes. We’ve clipped them from magazines and newspapers, jotted them down from the memory of a family member or printed them from the web. At auction some months ago, I bought a group of items that included a small box of clipped and written recipes that go back to 1929.

Some of the [...]