what would YOU save??

awhile ago i went to the pickering markets with darren and owen. there was a shop that sold dutch food and i picked this up. they also had baby blue and pink candy coated anise seeds that go with butter-slathered crunchy bread, eaten to celebrate the birth of a new baby. i'm not crazy about anise so i stuck with chocolate. it's called hagelslag and after looking at other pictures i apparently did not load enough on! the idea of people having this for breakfast is kind of mind blowing.

i stumbled across this website the other day and thought it was neat. foster huntington's photographic project documents what one would save in the face of a fire and i liked seeing what people from different age groups would save. i think my favourites were lee hunt and marilyn lue's and peter r. frorer's lists. 300 year old family tree! rock hammer from parents that you've been using your whole life! i thought about what i would save in a fire:

collection of pins

external hard drive. it doesn't have everything on it, like my film pics or cd music, but it's got a lot of stuff

mom's snoopy pendant

madagascan thumb piano

there was a lot to consider, including how easy it was to grab. there are random photos in my room and in a whole bunch of storage boxes that would be harder to retrieve and that makes me sad. and it doesn't mean that anything else left behind is insignificant either. like he says it's a conflict between what's practical, valuable and sentimental. see foster's entire project at theburninghouse.com