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Thank you for honoring my mother on a day where we all gathered to celebrate her life.

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What a gift to share. First Simon sending you the box and then you sharing with us the stories of his mother. The patterns of the woven bag can be found in the story of your friendship. What a beautiful pattern you’ve woven together for us.

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Beautiful, thank you for sharing a fragment of her life with us. I too, as a teenager covered my ears and avoided the stories of my Dad’s childhood memories of war in Europe. He recently died and I wish with every fiber of my being I hadn’t waited till Dementia had started to rob him of his history..😢🫶

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the utter kindness of Simon🌱

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What a beautiful journey through all these things... I am also a container person -- I had a beautiful set of boxes and filled one with different note card questions about something I was researching -- I could take different pieces out and see them combine in a new way.

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Thanks you for sharing your experiences with us. A powerful post.

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Can never forget. Thank you for memories of an extraordinary woman.

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Ooh, there is so much here to explore. Fascinating to go into the box and the bag and travel back.

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This moved me to tears. As an artist, as a lover of containers like yourself, as a lover of photos and taking photos, and as a person who's painted and written a memoir of my mother's dementia.

On a different topic, I recently found (and grabbed) a copy of Poor Man's Feast from a Little Free Library! I would not have recognized it for what it was if I hadn't recently subscribed to your newsletter because someone sent me your September post about notebooks. I LOVE such serendipitous things.

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Beautiful and important! Thanks, Elissa.

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Beautiful. I followed the link to Sylvia's website and I looks like most of the image links are broken. I did read the interview, however, and I wish I'd discovered her work earlier. Thank you.

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Beautiful. Thank you.

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Just a light side note...a few days ago my oldest son and I were reminiscing about our teen years and I said " don't make thei same mistake I did and not talk to your parents about there history before it's too late " His reply...thats a good idea, write it down. Prick.

P.S. I love your stack, my absolute favorite.

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This is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this very human story with us. She seems like she was a truly extraordinary person.

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Yes. We have to pay attention to all of it. And we have to have along with memory an imagination in evil as the ancient poets knew. Human nature as it shapes history and rewrites the wrongs we need to always remember what human beings are capable of doing to one another.

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A brave woman on so many levels.

Thank you for sharing this beautifully written story.

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