[personal things] memories reside in these

Update: check Bunny's offerings here and Nunyaa's here. Cherie's here. Welshcakes' here.

As more come in, this will be updated.

People are more important than things and feelings between people are the most important of all but the danger is that when the people are gone, only the things remain.

This is nostalgia and I'm not a nostalgic person.

And yet the things about me each carry a memory. For example, in the collage at the end of this post, the little bird in a garden is all that's left of perhaps the most important girl in my life. She's still here but not the same person.

One either loved or loathed Roy Orbison but in the track Bono penned for him below: "She's a Mystery to Me", there are many personal things, many images, many memories, glad and sad.

Looking at the woman's visage, it's not surprising to me the memories were mostly sad and yet piquant at the same time.

Will you make a collage of your most important things and post it on your site? Will you include your favourite musical track? I'd like the pragmatic, the gruff, the unnostalgic to post these things as well - to give us an insight into who you are.

Collage of some of my personal things