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Recovery from disaster is a long process, as this Museum of Anthropology exhibition demonstrates. Open until Sept. 19. The idea was to posit a radical reassessment of our relationship, to buy fewer things, repair them more often and lighten the overall footprint of consumption. But it turns out plenty of folk were already well on their way, caring for items, both practical and whimsical, with gentleness, affection and care. A bounty of submissions arrived coats, frying pans, earrings, key chains each with a story attached. Whether it’s a very old teddy bear or an upright piano, the stuff that we treasure often says more about us than we realize. ....