That Clinging Feeling: Possessions
That Clinging Feeling: Possessions Possessions were never a big thing for me. “Keeping Up With the Joneses” was never important. Part of that is because I saw how much our family did without. One incident that I remember is the repossession of a car that my dad bought that we could not afford. The tow truck came and pulled it away, and we never rode in it again. Another was that after Dad died at 36, the four of us had to live from day to day. We never worried about our next meal like many in our world, but we were not always sure of where the next meal after that would come from. My uncles, who loved us so much, would take us down to Welgo Trader’s in Lexington and there, buy school clothes because Mom did not have the money to buy them for us. We lived in a house that one uncle bought, so we could have a roof over our heads. So I grew up with not as much as some. But I feel at my age and with my most recent health issues, that I ...