The diary lay gathering dust until recently, when an enterprising grandson decided it should be published.
I can remember when the streets of the town I lived in were sprinkled with water to lay the dust in summer, and when girls wore waist cinchers and crinolines that could stand up by themselves, and when there was nothing much to be done about things like polio and leukemia.
Beyond the doors lay Herons Creek, dust-blown and desolate.
In one, a boy's naked body, thickly coated in gray dust, lay prone amid rubble, in footage that activists said was shot on Monday in Moadamiyeh, a suburb southwest of the capital, Damascus, on a street echoing with high-pitched wails and crammed with cinder blocks from collapsed facades.
Reports of facilities lying gathering dust for ever more are common, however.
Not so long ago, I found myself shuffling through a couple of old boxes which had lain gathering dust in my parents' house since my teens.
Cassius and I climbed to another level, where there were taxidermied species of marine life, lying in dust, alongside whatever technical equipment was being stored — a hose, a small generator, a hand pump, a dustpan and brush.
He had been more interested in football as a youngster, and shown more talent as a musician, travelling to Paris with his school jazz band and passing grade six on the alto saxophone that currently lies gathering dust at home.
Meanwhile VR's expensive weaponry lies gathering dust in early adopters' homes, and the tech's vested backers are facing years in the sloping wilderness.
They're trying to compare the service to YouTube, but this seems a bit more like the blasted reaches of SourceForge where the least-frequented projects lie gathering dust.
