The personal belongings I hold most dear are the encompassments of my life, from birth to the present day, embedded within my memory and housed in my brain.

My life is full of memories, some of them sad but most of them positive. Embedded within is everything embracing my family, work, recreational pursuits, and contributions in a total personal and professional context.

I have material aids, tangible artefacts and other physical and visible paraphernalia. But at the end of the day, these things can be left behind and it’s what remains within my memory that I treasure the most.

Those treasures come to light in conversation, in sitting and reflecting and casting back to the past through to the present and indeed prognosticating toward the future.

My most precious treasures of those within my mind.