What are some common things in your home that would also have been seen in the home of your parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents?
What are some things in your home that tie you to your specific past? Do you have a religious emblem — like a doorway mezuzah — that someone handed down to you? A pineapple door-knocker, which is an old symbol of welcome? Perhaps a decorative milk-pail that a great-grandparent actually used for milking cows?
This week's theme is the state of your home.
My house is only 69 years old, but it was built with doorknobs and other hardware from the 19th century.
ReplyDeleteThe basic form of a house, with doors, walls, windows, and roof, goes back thousands of years.