On long timescales that is undeniably true.
Look at this. It's worthless - ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless.
-Belloq
Belloq was evil, but he was also insightful.
On shorter timescales the proposition is harder to support.
But, anyway, when my grandparents stuff was being sorted into person A keeps, person B keeps, we have a deathmatch to decide who keeps it, and throw out, I ended up taking various things that no one wanted. Including a hat.
This hat:
Alas, the hat could not stay on forever:
But he picked it up:
And put it back on:
And the thing that makes this all not just random pictures of a cute kid in an old hat (not that there's anything wrong with a cute kid in an old hat) is this:
Robert Syska was my mother's father, thus Jensen's great grandfather.
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Jensen saw the hat, which I had forgotten about entirely, and decided to put it on all on his own.
Cool. :)
ReplyDeleteCool family heritage stuff, but really...
ReplyDeleteOMG OMG TEH KYOOOTES!!!
I just want to squeeze him!
ReplyDeleteAlso I envy his rad overalls.
I am Robert Syska from Long Island. My dad was Robert also, born from William Syska 1937. I am 1962
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