#passed down

We think of family heirlooms as items that are passed down from generation to generation. But often, the items can be passed to other hands that go beyond familial blood.

What’s important is the item itself and what it represents.

It’s not always meant to be something of high monetary value but something that carries to weight of time and sentimentality. 

It’s often something that cannot be replaced.

Even if it is something that may not look particularly unique or valuable, to the people it belongs to, it is irreplaceable.

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sits behind glass

or waits for a price.

Some things live

in the space between hands—

your mother’s fingers

guiding yours

through your own reflection.

The way she showed you

to sweep color

soft as morning

across your eyelids,

not to become someone else

but to meet yourself gently.

The rhythm of a brush

through tangled hair—

not just untangling strands,

but the day,

the doubt,

the small, unseen knots.

The quiet instruction

of warm water on your face,

how to begin again

each morning

as if nothing has been ruined.

These are not things

you can wrap,

or weigh,

or trade.

They cannot be stolen

because they are given—

again and again—

in mirrors,

in laughter,

in the hush before bedtime.

They are carried

in muscle memory,

in the way you will one day

stand behind someone smaller,

hands steady,

voice soft,

saying

“like this,”

without realizing

you are echoing a voice

that once steadied you.

And that is how

the most precious things survive—

not by being kept,

but by being passed

like light

from one life