Top Drawer: Well Loved

"Everything she owned was worn and shabby beyond belief, but she liked things that way."

The rundown: vintage Barbour Bedale (my mother’s, purchased in the early 90s); the flotsam of a well-used and well-loved family jacket.

Notable: Digging into this jacket’s many pockets is always an education. In this particular lucky dip, I found an acorn (very nearly brittle to the touch), a smoothed fragment of a shell, and a stone I collected from a w…