Home
Home: A curious word with no synonym. I mean - home, it has an internal resonance, it confers a sense of belonging, comfort, place.
Yet we've replaced it largely with words like "Apartment" and "House" - words that describe the style of our accommodation, but not our intrinsic relationship with it. An "apartment", "duplex", "condo", "house", these are places where we live, but they confer no warmth or intimacy.
Searching I've concluded that there seems to be no synonym for it.
Consider Love. There are a wide variety of synonyms, it's gradients, there's fondness, affection, like, limerence, crush - all implying some shade of love.
But there's no place - or synonym - for Home.
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And a smattering of other treasures...
And a few of the other treasures I've come across...
This in one of the "reserved" boxes of treasures. A 100+ year old dollhouse chair, why are they hanging on to it? Because it's old...
"But LOOK AT THE CONDITION of it" I say, to no avail. The back of the thrift shop is filled with tat like this, of great "sentimental" value but no practical worth.
A seriously disturbed little baby. Provenance unknown.
A handpainted rock. We get a lot of these, believe it or not...
Turn it over and:
You know, I mean - you know. "Year Completed", which raises it up to the status of a Mona Lisa, years, decades in the works, how many years did Emma labor on this I wonder?
In the "Shrine" a hand-carved wooden beaver-toothed Indian Chief. Racist as all fuck. But that's not the best part...
Go to pick him up and...
Charming!!!
Then there's...
Creepy doll, of which we have countless, and they never sell.
And then there's the Shrine, which is a collection of "M********"'s special reserved treasures, that he can't seem to part with. Since he's away I've been in charge of maintaining it...
Some vintage star wars figurines, and handmade tile...
A cap gun, we can't sell (community doesn't like that), a "Thou Shalt Not Steal" admonishing Monk Cookie Jar, and - leaning in front of it - legit, a 1 oz silver bar. Who donates this stuff? Anyways, the best thing I'd seen in a week so I was rather pleased...
An obscenely detailed South American Pottery Figurine obscured by a hitchhiking Elvis...
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An old album filled with vintage postcards
And another find, we get something similar every month, an old album filled with someone's collection of vintage postcards. The complete housecleaning of someone deceased, nothing left behind. Ranging from Dublin, England, to Yellowstone, Arizona and even Medicine Hat and Regina. Plus a few from right here in the Kootenays.
Right click on the photos to embiggen in another window and read the location.
It would be worth properly scanning the whole album, but I'm not paid for that, still, a curious thing...
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EMF Healthcard
One of the more interesting discoveries of the past couple of weeks - an EMF Healthcard.
Now I've been pitching these to the boy for a while, he should be manufacturing EMF Mitigation/5G Blockers/Vaccine Reversal Pills and all other manners of quack medical placebos to the Alberta Government. Because it's rare you get that level of top-tier stupidity elected, although it's becoming a bit of a rule in Alberta.
Anyways, the card is thick, plastic, heavy, and sells for approximately $85 Euros.
Bloody hell.
Link Here: https://emfhealthcard.com/nl/
I mean...Wow. I need to branch into the medical field...
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