The Year of …

I don’t know what your plans were, but 2015 was going to be my Year of Finishing Things, and by golly, I finished a thing.

RIAN archive 474794 Mstislav Rostropovich, chief conductor and art director of U.S. National Symphony Orchestra
What about 2016? What’s your theme this year? Or, if you’re not that keen on having a theme, how about a theme song?

I'm Back – with a Box!

Crumpled Box

Tell me, if you were to inherit a large boxful of something from an ancestor, what would you most like the box to be full of?

Failing that, if you are so perfectly pruned that you have no desire for ancestral boxworth’s, what do you imagine my box might be full of? [Please note, actual box not shown.]

Inheritance

Grandmother - Albert Anker

What’s your position on owning and using things that used to belong to your ancestors (grandparents or older)? Like or loathe? Something you love or that you couldn’t wait to get rid of?