The Hand-Me-Downs That Make Our Homes
8 min readMar 26, 2021
My very favorite belongings are ones that belonged to someone else in my family first: The cutting board my dad and grandfather created from a slab of butcher block. The typewriter that sits on the shelf of my childhood bedroom, a graduation gift my grandmother got before she went to college. Belongings, passed down, can function as illustrations: Of a life, of a self, of a home.