time passages

I live in a house surrounded by tchotchkes - not just any trinket and knick-knack but ones that call forth faded memories of places, people and a good measure of what-ifs, the paths not taken. To keep ourselves from taking ourselves too seriously, though, tchotchkes is a good descriptor. The dictionary says that "tchotchke comes from the Yiddish tshatshke of the same meaning, and ultimately from a now-obsolete Polish word, czaczko." What say you, my polish friends?

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