We usually discuss connection in the context of the present, but today my guest, Connection Messenger* Annette Petrick shares an experience of being with her engineer fiancé when he found himself drawn to a very old book at an auction. Turns out, it connected him not only to the book’s writer 200 years ago, but also to his own love of lyrical writing.
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Have you ever been to an auction? It’s easy to get carried away; especially when you see something you “just can’t live without.” I have rarely seen that kind of fervor from my practical, conservative partner. So to see him turn passionate about bidding his way to ownership was truly a unique happening.
So what caught his eye? Tools? An old car? Collectibles from his childhood?
Listen in to hear what it was, and what effect it had.
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Annette Petrick for Consider This
Annette Petrick is the creative genius and inspired storyteller behind the Consider This Radio Show, featuring 90-second episodes serving up “timely perspectives on life, love, friends, family, giving back, and giving thanks.” Be sure to get on her email list HERE. She sends out a new 90-second episode every Sunday morning.
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[stextbox id=”stb_style_870581″]* What’s a Connection Messenger? At Heartspoken, a Connection Messenger is someone who helps point the way to strengthening one of life’s essential connections: with God, with self, with others, or with nature. [/stextbox]
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“Old” things are what connect us to our past and our future. Because at some point, our grandchildren, or great grandchildren, will remember us, and our lives, by the old rocking chair they inherited, or the necklace I willed to them. I even love reading my grandmother’s old recipes – I feel like she’s telling me the ingredients right there in the kitchen.
You are so right, Pamela! I adore coming across an old recipe in the familiar handwriting of my mother, grandmother or mother-in-law, especially when it’s a recipe familiar and often-used, so I make an emotional connection not only with a person, but also a taste and perhaps even a particular gathering where it was served. I love the notion of making future connections as well as past connections!
Many old things intrigue me. Now that I’m older and more in touch with my past, and my mom’s past, I just love old things. I have my Aunt Ang’s diary from the 1930s and I read it – when I think about it – to see what she was doing this day, 80+ years ago. I have old pictures, old genealogy charts, old handwritten poems. All precious to me. I am often drawn to “old” things at yard sales or such. They are so much more interesting that new things. On this day in 1936, Ang went to see “The Rainmakers” at the movies. I picked up a first edition of a Zane Grey novel at a yard sale in Maine while on vacation. It was 50 cents.
I know what you mean, Karen. There are a few things in my home inherited from my grandmothers, and when I look at those things, I am swept right back to remembering where the object was located in their home. Memory is a powerful thing.
Elizabeth, I can’t help but wonder if this auction was for someone we know. He certainly had a lot of books that would fit the description, in his cabin up against the mountain.
Hmmmm, did his family have an auction? Actually, I think the auction in this piece took place when they were at their winter home in Florida, but Annette can weigh in on that.