Henning Mankell's long-suffering police officer, Detective Wallander, once said something about how we never quite leave our past behind...it's drug along with us for the rest of our lives. Sometimes that past comes in the form of little knick-knacks that occasionally serve as memory joggers. This one is of a lighthouse in Erie, Pennsylvania, a town where we once lived for awhile. It's amazing how such a little thing can evoke persons, conversations, and landscapes so vividly and instantaneously. Of course, for similar reasons, we sometimes ditch the knick-knack hoping to leave certain memories behind us. But I don't think memories leave with the trash.
On a side note...don't miss this funny little animated short from Pixar called, "Knick Knack."
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