Stamps

I was cleaning out the drawers two weeks back and came across this bag of stamps that Brendan's father gave me some many years ago. I am not a stamp collector but I do appreciate these very old stamps, though they are by no means vintage, they are some 20 year-old. From India, Indonesia, Philippines, Australia, UK, USA, Malaysia, Japan & local ones. Brendan's mom used to be a domestic house cleaner for many expatriates when she was up and running before she had a stroke in 2000. The stamps were from the many letters and postcards from her relatives and employers. She must have been much a yakker (someone who chats a lot). I did not really get to know her very well before the stroke but I can tell you, her personality has changed. I have noticed a few stroke patients being a very different person from their hay days. For one, they now laugh much more, it is like a circuit in the brain clicked or brokedown (?) and made them more susceptible to laugh. I am not kidding, you can go observe this phenomenon.