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Lae

Other People’s Clutter

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 / The Familiar Strange / 1 Comment

perhaps the most perplexing item she had kept from her time was the empty casing of an artillery shell from World War Two. She told me that many of the ladies would find these shells (sometimes still live) and would commission a local Papua New Guinean man to convert them into modest flower vases.

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