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Objects

What are three objects you couldn’t live without? – Asks the daily writing prompt.

At first, I really had a hard time thinking of objects I couldn’t live without. I don’t like to think there is any material thing I could live without. But really, it’s a good question to think about. Simple things like fires or natural disasters can take everything in the blink of an eye.

Thinking of losing everything and only keeping 3 things would be tough. So, you start to think about what isn’t replaceable. The little things over time from the grandkids, my own children, the little things my better half and I have done together and saved. The things we have saved from our parents that mean the world to us.

I’d be very depressed if I lost all my images, artwork and writing. I wanted to include this in the 3 but that would be selfish. I would go on living and creating new ones.

I really like my old Miata and driving that. But I lived without it. I grew up without all the digital devices we have today so I know I can live without them.

I guess I would have to pick 3 personal items. One of my mom and dad’s things I’ve kept. Maybe his burial flag and her scarf. Next would be a personal item from my life with my better half. Maybe the ring or a photo of us when we were young. Last would be a big chest of all the photos of the children and grandchildren we have from birth to now.

Held up well after 8 plus decades. My grandmother gave this chest to my father before he went into the Navy in 1940. Photo by Mike Hartley


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3 living objects

The Daily Writing prompt asks What are three objects you couldn’t live without?

Beyond the things in nature that sustain us, I went with a few things in my life.

Let’s see, I’ve lived without technology in my life so I know computers and smartphones, I’d rule out. Yes, I was around when those things weren’t for the most part as you know it today. And I do love all this stuff now but won’t include it.

So what 3 objects have been with me all my life that I can’t live without? From a very young age I can remember being interested in the cameras around the house. The slide projector of my Dad’s service days clicking along on the screen. I love photography and I’ve continued that love all my life so the first object is a camera.

Some of the cameras of family and mine through time. Not my current tools but I find it hard to get rid of these relicks. Photo by Mike Hartley

The second one would probably be a car. I almost said motorcycle but I’ve learned to live without one even though that has been difficult. But a car has been part of me from the day I started remembering things. I love to drive and always have and will, especially my Miata. And it looks like a top-down day today.

This last one is hard to confine to one object so I’ll put them in a box together. All the little family things that have no value to anyone other than me. Things that I have tucked away from each family member, my better half, my two children, and now my grandchildren and of course my parents and sister.