In addition to the envelopes of receipts and paperwork of Great-Grandmother Ruth's found throughout these boxes, tiny notebooks, newspaper clippings, and small notes pop up - little messages from her. Some are rather random and funny. Some are sad and make you pause.
They are her inner thoughts. They are the commentary for the day.
They are relevant. Irrelevant. Both.
Who are they written to? Herself?
I'd like to think they were written to us...70 years later.
They might be the most personal of all that is contained in these boxes. They represent the "notes to self", "don't forgets", and "interesting thoughts" that we all have strewn throughout our own lives, whether or not we write them down.
Ruth wrote them down.
No matter how much a person stares that won't pay any bills or get any work done.
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