Things, including this thing

I love things. I love making things, and I love things made by other people, as recently as this morning and as long ago as a hundred or a thousand or ten thousand years before today.

I love memory, and history, and museums.

I love the stories things tell. Everything is made for a reason, and if it's still around, then it's still here for a reason. That chain of meaning and memory that links an object's moment of creation to its presence here and now - the reason it was made, the way it was used, the reason someone or many someones chose to keep it - fascinates me.

So this will be part museum blog, part craft blog, with not enough originality or insight into either to be much of anything - but there is a reason I made this, too (digital creations count just as much as handmade, in my book), and I think it's worth having.