hi MA,

legacies do linger ... the important ones - which the material ones can come to symbolize ... I too have such physical legacies - seeing on the kitchen counter as I write here the wooden knife-set holder from probably about the 1940s of my mom's that I still have, as well as some of the knives and, somewhere too the sharpener (we never called it a carborundum) that, in my household, it was always my dad's task to use and sharpen with. That and barbecuing and making pancakes were the three male kitchen tasks I witnessed growing up. Kind of funny mix. I was never instructed in how to use a carborundum and, indeed, i leave that task to my husband. Legacies. My non-feminist underpinnings?

Wishing you peace on a day inherently full of memories ... A little over a month ago marked seven years for me and it was the first year that the whole day didn't feel like it had something of an undertow pulling me back in time operating most of the day ...

z