Time Capsule - Holding On to What...
Time Capsule - Holding On to What Time Won’t Let Us Keep
Love Letters to Forgotten Things by Brian Easterling
May 20, 2026
02:02
Episode notes

What do we hope to preserve when we bury the past? In this episode of Love Letters to Forgotten Things, Bunny recalls the day he sealed grief inside a homemade time capsule—believing memory, love, and loss could be frozen in the earth until the future was ready. But time had other plans. Boxes collapse, paper fades, and even the most sacred keepsakes surrender to soil.

What remains is never the treasure chest we imagine, but something smaller, more fragile: a drawing, a photograph, a clipping. Proof not of permanence, but of impermanence—of how memory itself resists preservation.

This isn’t just about a box buried in the woods. It’s about the rituals we create to hold onto the people we’ve lost, and the bittersweet truth that memory is always shifting, never fixed. If you’ve ever wished you could keep something—or someone—unt ... 

Keywords
nostalgia
emotional storytelling
coming of age
memories
growing up
gen-x
love
grief
goodbye
loss