The books from my mom's collection

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Some things are just worth keeping.

Look at how well worn those books are. They were your mother's friends. I have shelves full of my mother's books, and more shelves of my own books. I have culled some of my mother's books that I just had zero interest in ever picking up to read, but there is still a large collection. And I have been pleasantly surprised by some of the books in that collection that I have picked up to read. The first one was the book of short stories that she was in the middle of when she died.....One Basket by Edna Ferber, and I am so much better off to have read that.

Memories in the form of something tangible, like books, are impossible to get back once they are gone. Take at least some with you when you move. Give the rest to the library if they take donations as a fund-raiser (as my library does), or take them to a nursing home, or leave them in a Laundromat or coffee shop. Don't throw them out.