One year, carrying Christmas decorations to the attic, I fell through the ceiling.

There's a photo. It's real — that's it, right there.

I didn't fall all the way through — but I was up there long enough to look around at what surrounded me. A nativity collected piece by piece over twenty years. Photo ornaments of kids who are now grown. A handmade Pre-K decoration from 2001. Personalized velvet stockings. A flocked tree's worth of ribbons and family memories.

All of it sitting in a Texas attic that runs 40 to 60 degrees hotter than the air outside — so on a summer afternoon it climbs well past 140 degrees up near the roof deck. Not warm. Not stuffy. An oven. Ribbon melts. Photos fade. Resin cracks. Foam warps. The things you've spent a lifetime gathering, slowly destroyed by a season of storage.

I thought: someone needs to do this better. That someone turned out to be me.

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