These things are not real. They are phantasmagoria . They were made by dreams, and now that no one is dreaming them any longer they are crumbling away.

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Keeping things does feel like preserving them to me. I have kept a lot of what I have, not to collect it but to keep it from being uncared for (physically and mentally). Someone created that book, that teapot, that pretty jar and once its gone it will be forgotten as if the people, the inspiration, the beauty, the history, anything and everything that mattered about it, will just be gone. I like the way Margaret Atwood said it in the quote from her book, above.

It comes from another world, which, like the stars that originally sent out the light we see hesitating in the sky above us these nights, may be or is already gone. It is possible to reconstruct the facts of this world - the furniture, the clothing, the ornaments on the mantelpiece, the jugs and basins, and even the chamber pots in the bedrooms, but not the emotions, not with the same exactness. So much that is now known and felt must be excluded.

I had become a visitant from outer space, a time-traveller come back from the future, bearing news of a great disaster.

"Not a single word or idea is too good to be deleted, changed, or improved." Abby Goldsmith

“Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.” ― Christine de Pizan

"An adventure is a transgression you don't regret." Kate Wheeler