Not of This Earth
Searching for the answer: how do things become treasure? By dipping them in the Earth? Eradicating their abundance? Can you simply use a calendar?
Things are heavily valued over the course of time. But, creating intangible experiences also develops treasure. It is after all an abstract idea. Something may be an artifact and still not thought of with value. They say such things are priceless. Displaying them, encasing them away from rust. The same as your mind encapsulating its valuables inside a shell.
There are tastes, perspectives, and sounds - so unforgettable and never to be duplicated. Memories sealed; never to be compared or held under common light. They need an exhibit, a pedestal, to shine. Creativity carves out and etches details which distinguish each piece.
Each of these throwback and help make up a collection. Certain things in your mind trigger and navigate the treasure map of your archives. Sometimes this is done therapeutically to give tender surroundings in delicate areas. Excavating into serenity we're releasing buried secrets.
We must be fragile with our unearthing. It is imperative to think ahead as we stowed away importance. Tucking sacred mementos, which are powerfully both negative and positive, into the sands of time. For one day we may find them again, bringing unforeseen salvation from the days long before. Perhaps we never have known what will matter in years to come and should be soft.
