Things We Kept

Some things earn the right to stay.

Not everything old needs replacing.

Some things worked. Some things mattered. Some things just felt right. They survived new versions, better technology, changing tastes, and more than a few attempts to improve them.

Things We Kept is about the stuff that earned its way onto Side II—not because we're stuck in the past, but because some things are still worth hanging on to.

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Repairing the Past with the Future

We bought it for thirty five dollars several decades ago at a local flea market. My not-yet wife and I loved it the moment we saw it. Built when radios were meant to be looked at as much as listened to, she is a 1940’s Magnavox Model 140B console radio/record player. Originally the radio worked...

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The Toolbox I Almost Gave Away

Some things stay with us because they still work. Others because they carry a story. A tool worn smooth in the hand, a recipe written in somebody else's handwriting, a record we've played a hundred times. We don't keep everything. Maybe that's what makes the things we do keep matter.