I love libraries.
I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.
Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.
This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.
Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.
Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.
Excuse me while I go weep.
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Bagginshield-tober: Nephews (Sansûkh edition). And if there was 'guilt' promt it would be here as well.
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Unexpected Guests Chapter Ten, Act Two: Page 3
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The gang have made it into the brother's house, but even with a blaster keeping watch, it seems they won't get a moment of peace after all...
The battle begins anew next time, on Oct. 5th!
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furnishing for new beginnings 🪴🏡
shell house by @plumdale 🩷
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Daphne's shack by the sea 🏖
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Daphne's bedroom didn't make a cut but I liked this pic too much to not include it
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kit's comics, newcrest
i really wanted to make some businesses for newcrest and i thought a little comic book store & arcade would be so cute! especially for kids & teens
the mysims wall is soooo serious to me and i couldn't resist using @squea's cornelius mysims figure!!! 😭
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