As in all collections, there has to be a bucket for the miscellaneous objects that do not fit anywhere else. Thus Flotsam and Jetsam. Flotsam comes from the French meaning to float. Jetsam describes debris that was deliberately thrown overboard by a crew of a ship in distress to lighten the ship's load. However, I take the term from the title of a chapter from Book 3 of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Two Towers” in which Merry and Pippin are found lording over the detritus of Isengard floating in the ruins.

I do not want to imply that herein is contained my discards. Rather, here lie the things dear to me that I could not fit in the other buckets.