Shelf Life
Digital collage, August 2023
So much of our lives (or, at least, mine) is revealed by what is on our shelves. Look closely enough and you can see my interests, hobbies, and histories. You can search for items that occupy places of honor and for those that tell stories. You can see daily life in the paper towels and baby bottles and moments of leisure in the many, many books. Notice what I use often by the way things are arranged, what is in front, and what is out of reach. I’d guess your life is similarly arranged according to what is important to you. What is on your shelves?
I love how cleverly you edited all your shelves together! I enjoyed going through and identifying where each shelf is in your house (or, at least, where it was a year ago). Definitely agree with mom that this would make a wonderful puzzle:)
Also, sadly, I cannot answer the question what is on my shelves because I have no shelves... I have random chairs that hold all manner of clothes and books and art supplies that rotate what's on top depending on what I'm using at the time :P Certainly wouldn't make for nearly a pleasing a picture as yours!
It must be an Oliver or Carley thing: Reading and overflowing bookshelves! My bookshelves were seriously lightened by the removal and distribution of decades worth of contents; a move to a MUCH smaller house necessitated the drawdown. But Praise the Lord! My collection is coming back! And it looks familiar: Bibles, Bible Study, and Prayerbooks; mystery novels (Jance, Connelly,Penny); family-friendly novels (Flag, Mittford), old yearbooks, my thesis, and my dissertation. These and some treasured childhood books—lovingly worn and somewhat threadbare but STILL treasured—reveal much of my life as a great grandmother.
May it ever be!
Great Grandma Joan😊