TIME IN A CUP...

Until a few years ago, a handful of JAJ/PYREX cups,

like the one in the photo, used to reside in a cupboard in the

kitchen.  I think they occupied a kitchen cupboard in just about

every house I've ever lived in, but I associate them with two in

particular - this and the previous one.  At some indeterminate

stage they disappeared, but I recently managed to a acquire

a replacement set on eBay.

Just looking at them brings my childhood back to me in

a rush, and I'm once again a 10 year old boy in the kitchen

of the house I lived in at the time;  or a 14 year old teenager in

the home I currently occupy.  It's almost a mystical thing, this

sense of 'time-travel' on such occasions, and I'm sometimes

amazed at how even one item can conjure up memories

of entire periods of one's past life to mind.

So I've had a cup of tea in one of my 'new' cups, and

lingered in yesteryear for a spell.  Is there any specific item

from your youth that you'd like to have again, to help recall

a particular period in your life with a keenness and clarity

that, somehow, only a tangible object can bestow?

   The comments section awaits.    

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