Posts tagged Shadowbox of work symbols
SAVING SYMBOLS & HONOURING A LIFETIME OF WORK

What are some options to honour one’s work life as we downsize, change careers or retire? Readers posed this question in response to my recent posting about recognizing a grain farmer’s lifetime impact on Canada’s economy and feeding the world.  Other readers suggested ways that they might remember their own work lives. 

So what’s the situation?  As we change careers, move to smaller housing, or simply wish to have less stuff around, what do we do with the tools of the trade that meant so much to us?  Examples include stacks of teacher lesson plans or a driver’s logbooks. 

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