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Campbell Estate Sale Finds

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Monday, October 29, 2007.

Today I went to an estate sale of the property of the gentleman, Mr. Harry Campbell, for whom I have been house-sitting for these past three years. He passed away at 97 years in August. The trip today to his home, my "old" home, now sorted and merchandised like a garage sale sobered me with an air of finality. I spent three years in his home, tending to, and treasuring the things he and his wife worked hard to accumulate, though perhaps a little excessive in the accumulation, simply to have it now auctioned in wholesale lots. It struck me how glaring the lightness of our footprint here on this earth and "if I have not love..." what have I really?