A longtime friend, the author of a new book on 'super-aging', considers how to navigate the stuff that departing generations leave behind — from tchotchkes to grief.
Interesting --- but many people don't have kids to leave anything to, like me and my husband. I want to write about how intentional we thus have to be with art and photos (many of value), let alone a paid-off apartment. We are not close to nieces and nephews so our younger friends will likely benefit and we plan to ask them if they even want some of these things. Otherwise the good stuff goes to auction as my mother's did when she went into a nursing home from the hospital. I inherited 4 or 5 artworks, that's it. Very glad to have those familiar, lovely things in our home now.
Thanks...Not sure where to pitch but have a few ideas.
Interesting --- but many people don't have kids to leave anything to, like me and my husband. I want to write about how intentional we thus have to be with art and photos (many of value), let alone a paid-off apartment. We are not close to nieces and nephews so our younger friends will likely benefit and we plan to ask them if they even want some of these things. Otherwise the good stuff goes to auction as my mother's did when she went into a nursing home from the hospital. I inherited 4 or 5 artworks, that's it. Very glad to have those familiar, lovely things in our home now.
Thanks...I hadn't!