t-shirt archeology
As a guy, I can reconstruct my life with t-shirts. Digging down in my drawer on Sunday it accrued to me that the days of my life were laying in front of me. Vacations, hobbies, jobs, even the like of the beer, music and movies I like all told in t-shirts.
On the top of the stack are the shinny new t-shirts. These get wore more and are in much better shape. These include t-shirts from the Rouge Brewing Company, trips to Oregon and St. Coix and a couple of new shirts from work.
As you dig down in the pile I find haunted house shirts, faire shirts and Warhammer shirts. This layer also has shirts from Dean’s work and shirts from Netier, Microsoft and Embedded Software conferences. The next archeological layer includes youth ministry shirts, Zoo shirts and shirts from plays I was in.
The last layers far underneath the point where laundry must happen are the ancient ones. This includes a Smiths shirt signed by two cute girls at a club in Portland. There is an old tie-dye shirt bought at a Fred Myer for going to the coast on a day I should have been in high school. It was all there stacked like sedentary rock was my life so far.
Comments
You should look into having some T-shirt quilts made. Then you will have a nice keepsake to remember all those t-shirts by. I recently pulled all my t-shirts that showed my life and put them in a box for when the day comes that I add quilting to my hobbies.
Posted by: Dana B | September 5, 2006 04:26 PM
darn, she beat me to it. I know a woman that did one of all her son's t-shirts and presented it to him when his child was born.
Posted by: KIMDOT | September 9, 2006 08:45 PM