Gravity
Over the last several days, with the help of a U-Haul truck and some family muscle (thanks, you know who you are!) I emptied three 14-foot truckloads of accumulated mass from several storage lockers, dropping from four very full lockers to two no longer so full. Still some more to do tomorrow. The muscles are having a conversation, everyone talking at once.
I fell down twice, once landing full on my knee on concrete while holding a heavy box. Don't know why I wasn't hurt much. Interesting. It was raining most of the day today, but I was working hard enough to steam it all off apparently, as I was damp but not soaked most of the time. I'm tired.
I was purging backlogged years of files, books, and paraphernalia from three business activities -- Synchron, Gentle Electric, Cell Tech. Many good memories, a few painful ones. I didn't dwell long on each box. Mostly it was a keep (few) or discard (most), but in a few cases some finer grain decisions. Something has changed in me recently that I'm finding it simple to part with the unimportant parts of my past more easily.
It is really interesting to think that the substance of the carried mass and of the earth have such an affinity for each other, that they pull so hard to get closer together. Will we ever really understand how it works?
I fell down twice, once landing full on my knee on concrete while holding a heavy box. Don't know why I wasn't hurt much. Interesting. It was raining most of the day today, but I was working hard enough to steam it all off apparently, as I was damp but not soaked most of the time. I'm tired.
I was purging backlogged years of files, books, and paraphernalia from three business activities -- Synchron, Gentle Electric, Cell Tech. Many good memories, a few painful ones. I didn't dwell long on each box. Mostly it was a keep (few) or discard (most), but in a few cases some finer grain decisions. Something has changed in me recently that I'm finding it simple to part with the unimportant parts of my past more easily.
It is really interesting to think that the substance of the carried mass and of the earth have such an affinity for each other, that they pull so hard to get closer together. Will we ever really understand how it works?
posted by Carl | 7:50 PM
3 Comments:
wow. i understand this whole process, only i'm sort of developing the opposite relationship with the past, learning to love part of it that i never was particularly attached to before.
I think that transiion is a natural part of maturation.
I discarded a lot of precious stuff when I was a young adult. My parents were flabbergasted.
And now sometimes I wish I could see some of it again.
But now I'm also transitioning to letting more stuff go if it is really only clutter, but distilling a few key memorabilia or valuables from it. I think that will happen in multiple passes.
ya know, I agree about being cautious. I have gone through times in my life when I was in "purge" mode, and in retrospect I got a little purge happy sometimes. There are times I regret disposing of some things that meant a great deal to me and I didn't realize it.
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