Many people have bulletin boards where they attach items of interest, invitations, recipes, you-name-it. I’m not one of them. Instead, I use the door to my at-home office for that purpose.
It started innocuously about twelve years ago when I received a magnet that looked like a tiny blackboard on which was written in white “chalk” the following quote by Oscar Wilde. “Life is too important to be taken seriously.” At the time, our refrigerator (another object people use to post things) was stainless steel, and the magnet wouldn’t stick.
So I taped it to my office door and reviewed its sentiment regularly as I came and went. When we moved two years ago, I left the old door behind but brought the magnet to tape to a new one. It was quickly joined by a housewarming card my son sent, which was – in turn – joined by a postcard from The Netherlands sent by my other son and then two more from his various European travels. These “Favorite Five” are constant, while other pieces of paper come and go.
Currently they include the instructions for cleaning the rubber floor we installed in our garage (although I have never cleaned it), a coupon for dental floss that is about to expire (need to move on this one), a newspaper article on the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan (This is in deference to Earl’s interests), and a quote from Chief Joseph who led his tribe, the Nez Perce peoples, on a 1400 mile march to avoid conflict with the U.S. Military in the late eighteen hundreds. (We’re on the lookout for some piece of art representing this man who said, “I will fight no more forever.”)
There are the usual receipts, a recipe for Chophouse Salad, and a list of books I might like to read. Also a quote from True Value for the price of a Culligan water filter, the telephone number of the local health care center, and a note that the lady next door owes me $107 for tulip bulbs. It’s an eclectic assortment of bits and pieces, and I actually enjoy looking at them almost as much as I enjoy looking at some of our finer artwork.
Well, maybe with the exception of last October’s bill for the tulips.
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