Illustrated Purpose Of A Time Capsule

To bury your broken bones.

Dug up bulletin board from Berkley. Can you guess the year? Maybe, if you look real close you’ll find a clue.

You spend an entire afternoon burying a thoughtful time capsule, though little do you know just a few years later someone digs it up while bored on summer vacation. Reads your thoughts. Something happens. He leaves a little note saying among other things, “IOU”. That was 50 years ago!

Slow down…. way down…

Feeling around in his pocket the boy pulls out a key chain his late father gave him the previous summer. The last time he ever saw him, in fact. The boy drops it in the box and buries his grief along with some of his own thoughts. As time goes by the paper on the letter you’ve both written the future; soon present, and then distant past, begins to yellow. The metal surrounding the glass bottle rusts and bends under the weight of the withering earth.