We buy a home
that is seventy years old...
who was here?
About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
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1008. Home History
We buy a home
that is seventy years old...
who was here?
Link with 1007: New/Old Home.
[Our house we currently live in was built in 1932. Often when I see little nicks or scuffs around the house I wonder about the different folks who have lived here down through the years. A couple of years ago a Christmas card arrived addressed to what appeared to be a former owner. I looked him up and discovered he had indeed lived here. I invited him over for coffee and found that he had bought the house from the original owners in the early 1960's. They sold it to some folks in 1986, the same folks who in turn sold it to us in 1995. We enjoyed hearing many things from him about how they had enjoyed the house and what he knew about its history.]
my thoughts exactly
It would be great to have a house like that. So many hidden stories.
houses are full of voices
like this
the sf writer bob shaw (if i can trust my memory) hdevised a fictitious substance which he called "slow glass" - if a sheet was left standing in a location for months/years it would absorb the images and then "playback" later
i think that old houses have similar qualities
(sorry - very long comment
i got carried away) :)
i've never lived in a house but your haiku make me wish i did...
Pamela: Home sweet home.
Andrew: Yes, and some stories are "not so hidden". :-)
Floots: I've not heard about that story but have thought about a similar idea. Intriguing. Thanks!
Polona: Thanks...you mean you've only lived in apartments?
Are you sure they're all gone??
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