paper memories

I love paper- but I'm not very sentimental (mmmm. maybe a little bit). . .

my mother is very sentimental and she saves every scap of paper with a memory, especially from the 60+ years she was married to my father.

Sometimes the piles of saved paper irritate me. . .then I stumble upon a teasure.

So- my niece, Meredith, is sorting the stacks at Mom's house-last week she handed me a letter, still in the envelope with a classy Mexican stamp, a letter I wrote to my parents from a Mexican village, dated August 1982.

Rachel was 8 years old and I wrote, "Yesterday Rachel reread Charlotte's Web and she cried again. . .together we're reading The Borrower's Aloft; a friend lent us the Chronicles of Narnia-Rachel has read the first book already. . .the other day the girls were cutting out pictures from old Good Housekeeping magazines- Rachel commented, 'When I look at these magazines, it makes me think that there are lots of pretty things in the States!' and then she asked me, 'What's Master Charge?'"

A sweet memory amid a pile of obscure papers-(and she's getting married in just 10 days.)

maybe I should save more paper. . .