A friend's recent blog entry after a long dry spell has inspired me to come back and give this thing another try. She said it was hard getting started and man she wasnt kidding.
So, the theme du jour is reality and what belongs and conversely what does not belong in mine. At least that is what is knocking around my brain today.

Here lately I have been taking mental inventory of "things" ie people, places, events that have touched my life in some way and deciding whether they belong in the throw away, give away or keep pile. Not as easy as it sounds. I have no ruthless British speaking fellow telling me that the emotional price tags I have attached to each "thing" does not neccessarily make it worth keeping. Damn wish I did have him.

Its been said that things only have the meaning you give them. Ok, I guess I am in the phase of figuring out just that. and to borrow from a really crappy nightranger lyric "No good for an old memory to mean so much today." If you know its no good to hold on, how do you find it in yourself to let go?

I know deep inside that letting go of some "things" can only make me better, but there is still that reluctance... The easiest way is to have a better something to replace the old with. But manufacturing new memories and people is impossible.

hmmm..Maybe it all comes down to faith. Again like the tv show, the desperatley organizationally challenged family is promised a new, and beautiful living space BUT...they have to let go of the old ways.
Maybe the replacing of "things" cant be expected to be instantatious, but more of a natural progression. When one door closes......

sort.

pile.

discard.

repeat.