Today’s Flashback Question: My Favorite Thing (Or, ‘These Are A Few Of…’) – post a picture of an object or objects (we know that your children are your most valued whatevers, but we’re going OBJECTS here. Books, art, photos, mementos, shoes, garden gnomes, television set, whatever) that is/are dear to your heart. What would you grab if your house were on fire?
Me & Teddy, circa 1972
At first I thought about some of the old jewelry I have, passed down to me from now-deceased ancestors. Then I thought about some cherished books and irreplaceable photographs, both charting out memories of my youth. And yes, I did think about my computer — just for a fleeting second, I’m not a total asshole — and how much work it would take to even partially reconstruct its contents. The horror… the horror….
But honestly? Teddy is the only object I can imagine cutting a sizable gash in my heart if I were to lose it. The only object I own that is bound to me in a way that that feels almost primally, gutwrenchingly emotional. And hey, listen, I know it’s irrational, and perhaps even a little dumb — I’m thirty-seven freakin’ years old for crissakes, not THREE — but I’d dump the lot of antique jewelry I own to save his fuzzy old ass from a fire.
Teddy currently lives in M’s bedroom, not in mine, mind you. I may be sentimental and prone to irrational fits of nostalgia, but I’m NOT fucking creepy, man.
What about you? What’s your most cherished, will-snatch-from-a-fire-above-all-else favorite thing?
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Mah fellow fabulous Flashback betches:
Her Bad Mother: http://www.badladies.blogspot.com
Mrs. Flinger: http://mrs.flinger.us
Girls Gone Child: http://girlsgonechild.blogspot.com
Whoorl: http://whoorl.com
Oh The Joys: http://othejoys.blogspot.com
IzzyMom: http://izzymom.com
Mamalogues: http://mamalogues.com
