my boys, and my new baby girl. not possessions, but of anything in my life, they are what i can truly say are mine and most precious. things are only temporal.

now it is my computer, but it used to be my pen and notebook, and before that it was my books and guitar, and before that it was my car. (we michiganians usually have a thing about our cars.) a long, long time ago it was my cow.

If there were a fire or flood, I would reach for all my instruments - my harps, my clarinet, my autoharps, my recorders - all of which would be hard to replace. And then, my jewelry, the ring my mother was wearing when she died, and my other little treasures that are easily portable.

My favorite possession is my 1928 bungelow house I bought when I was teaching school and had no money. I think the note was $165 a month, big money. Today, I live in Houston Heights, a historical district, and my house would be expensive to buy now. It is like something I try to save, like an old dog. Luckily, people around me are usually gutting these old houses and keeping the neighborhood as it was, just more upscale. My other favorites possessions are the Burmese cats, Georgia Brown and Savannah Brown. They are my babies, my roommates, and if I ever move to Lake Chapala out of Guadalajara, they will be bi-lingual. Right now they can say, “Oooolllllaaaaa.” Also I have a little tiny piece of jewelry with some of Mom’s ashes inside. When I go some place special, I’ll wear that as she always was with me when special things happened to me. I don’t have much family left, and these things make my life much happier. We just have to figure out a solution to being older and still having a full life.

I will look around,and I’ll be back,if there is anything better than this highrise loft that I refuse to leave…..

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world ….. john lennon….. Ü

Celebrate life and memories!

My wedding band. See we did not have much money for rings we had three kids. The wedding cost us $1,000.00 which we made back in cash gifts. but wedding ring was made by a special person who is no longer with us, He took a sterling silver spoon and some how turned it into the most beautiful simple but elegant ring for me and one for my husband. I never take the ring off except to clean it with toothpaste, I do this once a month. I miss the gentlemen who made it ,But I remember the day my Husband placed it on my finger and when I placed his on his finger.

I have heirlooms for my children, but I cannot think of any possession I am attached to personally. I love my family and and just so grateful to have them. I did paint my children’s portaits when they were babies, I have a quilt my grandmather made by hand, my passport and journals I kept for each child while they were babies - I guess those would be the things I would grab in case of a fire.

My Computer. It opens up the world in new ways every day.

my orient and flume apple signed by the artist who created it. it was a gift about 25 years ago.

A model of “Evinrude ” the little character from the “The Rescuers” a animated feature film my Dad and was visual effects animator, it’s made from wire paper mache’ a little paint and lots of love. My Dad was the greatest you see, no one had a better one, not in the whole wide world. That a fact and I am sticking to it.

My art equipment, all of it, the beautiful papers..hot press and cold press, the Rembrandt’s ,the Sennelier oil sticks,the Derwent watercolor pencils (love them), the egg tempera,the Othello pastels and best of all grathite pencils, erasers,india ink and Prismacolor pencils.And the sharpener.

My most favorite possession? Hmmmm, Id have to agree wid Whoopi, all my possessions wuld get jealous if I just named one, but one is living and all the rest are non living, two different categories. So Id say, to be on the safe side, that my pet cat Tommy is my fav possession right now. I know the non living ones wont come after me. Yeahhhhh Tommy. Love, Felicia