Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I’ve read, that things inanimate have mov’d, And, as with living Souls, have been inform’d, By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound. What then am … Continue reading
I like finding games like these in a closet. Oftentimes, the items we encounter are dirty, broken, or too far deteriorated to be of use to anyone else. But these games seemed to have all of their pieces, and the … Continue reading
It’s always sad to see that children are displaced by the circumstances in their parents’ lives, and nothing evidences this displacement more than the presence of toys. Toys in a foreclosed home provide perhaps the oddest juxtaposition of messages. The … Continue reading
The floor of an old shed set the stage for this old Tonka toy to look not like an abandoned plaything, but more like the dead leader of a once-bustling shipping center. The tendrils of decay had begun to wrap … Continue reading
I’m not sure what this doll was doing, but I appear to have surprised it when I entered the porch of this urban dwelling. Discarded toys, old magazines, and piles of clothes were everywhere, but the first thing I saw … Continue reading
