Downsizing.
Getting rid of stuff.
Cleaning up messes, new and old.
Lightening my load.
And, Still
so much
more to go.
I guess Joanne had finally had it with all of my messes. Lots of excuses why they were there but bottom line is "I am a messy kind of guy!"
I also extol the virtue of "A place for everything and everything in its place."
Laziness, procrastination and, most probably, passive aggressivity thrown together with an active and compulsive need to produce and what you get, from me, anyway, creative productions and tailings.
Like the tailings left behind by cold miners. Messes, here and there.
Now, all of the ones at my (our) old home on Gibson Street are no longer and no longer my concerns. Whew! What a relief. Almost worth Joanne moving to Nevada City and catapulting me into these releases (Thank you, again, Joanne).
As I travel and talk with people the frequent response, as with Travels with Charlie and The Blue Highway, either verbally or with that wistful look, "Sure wish I could do that!"
When I talk about my having Liberty Cabins built for me a tiny-house-on-wheels (LibertyCabins.comhttp://www.libertycabins.com/), a 300 sqft structure which will become my permanent home, people frequently respond with "someone they know" or, they are living in a small (500 sqft) or they have seen the movie, etc. There is a movement!
Tiny Houses are the talk of the day!
It may just be me but doesn't it seem that more and more people are getting rid of more and more stuff?
Arn't the second hand stores being flooded?
So, what about that . . . The Ties that Tether.
What is happening to all of those connections to "stuff" and the accompanying attachments?
Is who I am determined by how I am tied up?
Whoa! Could it be?
Not to say the "ties" are bad. Without them there would be no balance or harmony. We would all be floating around connecting and disconnecting in some great hash of a mess.
It is to say we can thoughtfully disconnect where the connection no longer works for us.
Birds flying the nest.
Kids going off to . . .
People choosing to retire; or, getting laid off or fired or slowly wilting on the job, even dying.
Pick your medicine!
For me. So excited to have a new path and a new home (homes) to explore the world with.
Today, already, 3:00 pm or so I have met and talked with two of my friends from 20 years ago who now live in Lakeport. Lakeport is becoming more and more comfortable for me. Maybe it is time to sink some ties into this place. Beautiful Lake, Great Climate, Wonderful People, Excellent Restaurants and lots of dog walking!
I am actively promoting Intentional Releasing! (see next blog!)
Getting rid of stuff.
Cleaning up messes, new and old.
Lightening my load.
And, Still
so much
more to go.
I guess Joanne had finally had it with all of my messes. Lots of excuses why they were there but bottom line is "I am a messy kind of guy!"
I also extol the virtue of "A place for everything and everything in its place."
Laziness, procrastination and, most probably, passive aggressivity thrown together with an active and compulsive need to produce and what you get, from me, anyway, creative productions and tailings.
Like the tailings left behind by cold miners. Messes, here and there.
Now, all of the ones at my (our) old home on Gibson Street are no longer and no longer my concerns. Whew! What a relief. Almost worth Joanne moving to Nevada City and catapulting me into these releases (Thank you, again, Joanne).
As I travel and talk with people the frequent response, as with Travels with Charlie and The Blue Highway, either verbally or with that wistful look, "Sure wish I could do that!"
When I talk about my having Liberty Cabins built for me a tiny-house-on-wheels (LibertyCabins.comhttp://www.libertycabins.com/), a 300 sqft structure which will become my permanent home, people frequently respond with "someone they know" or, they are living in a small (500 sqft) or they have seen the movie, etc. There is a movement!
Tiny Houses are the talk of the day!
It may just be me but doesn't it seem that more and more people are getting rid of more and more stuff?
Arn't the second hand stores being flooded?
So, what about that . . . The Ties that Tether.
What is happening to all of those connections to "stuff" and the accompanying attachments?
Is who I am determined by how I am tied up?
Whoa! Could it be?
Not to say the "ties" are bad. Without them there would be no balance or harmony. We would all be floating around connecting and disconnecting in some great hash of a mess.
It is to say we can thoughtfully disconnect where the connection no longer works for us.
Birds flying the nest.
Kids going off to . . .
People choosing to retire; or, getting laid off or fired or slowly wilting on the job, even dying.
Pick your medicine!
For me. So excited to have a new path and a new home (homes) to explore the world with.
Today, already, 3:00 pm or so I have met and talked with two of my friends from 20 years ago who now live in Lakeport. Lakeport is becoming more and more comfortable for me. Maybe it is time to sink some ties into this place. Beautiful Lake, Great Climate, Wonderful People, Excellent Restaurants and lots of dog walking!
I am actively promoting Intentional Releasing! (see next blog!)
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