An idea that our physical connections are an essential element of our experience in the world. As the bags pass from person to person they serve as a common thread weaving the unique to the universal.

Each bag is accompanied by a journal for you to share your thoughts, experiences, or really, anything you want to.

Find a bag that speaks to you. Sign up and you will be notified when it is available. Let it share a few months of your wild, precious life. Bring it back and we’ll pass it along.

Only an openness to new experience and a commitment to contributing your own unique chapter in the story of each bag as it’s passed along.

Rochester, NY

The bags will be available for pickup and return in the Rochester, NY area.

It is used solely to contact you regarding the Heirloom Bag you sign up for. Feel free to use a pseudonym, alias, alter ego, whatever you want. I just need a way to contact you.

I may send out information from time to time about the Heirloom Bags that may be of interest to those who sign up. However, I will NEVER try to sell you anything and I will NEVER share your information with another party.

Life leaves marks. When it comes time to pass along the bag it will not look exactly the same as it did when it came to you. That is the point. If something truly catastrophic happens to it, well… at least it will have a good story to tell.

These bags weren’t made to sit on a shelf and gather dust. Neither are you.

Then we may not see it again. Each bag is a significant investment in time and materials, but its story is the real treasure. That can’t be replaced. Actually, its story might get really interesting at that point, however , we won’t know it if it’s lost to us. I just ask that while the bag is in your care you treat it like anything else you have and don’t want to lose.

Nothing.

Also, Karma.

If someone takes a bag with no intention of returning it, then I weep for them. Willfully breaking a chain of connection like this would incur a karmic debt no one should bear.

This is all a work in progress. I have considered many of the details, but I’ve found that theory and practice often don’t exist in the same reality. Therefore, the logistics may shift and evolve, but the intent will remain the same; to put something out into the world that in some way enriches our experience of it.