Tuesday, January 19, 2010
I'm Shedding, Not Saving
I'll never forget my friend Victoria Segovia who lived next door to me in Hawaii Kai. As we were moving all our junk into the house, she commented that she was entering her Zen phase of life and was getting rid of things, not collecting them. I watched during the course of two years as she gradually got rid of a lot of the stuff you just naturally collect over your lifetime. Turns out she was smart because during those two short years her husband Ignacio was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and they ended up having to move quickly to southern California to be closer to their children. I think I am going through the beginning stages of my Zen phase in 2010. This weekend (with Sam out of town, mind you), I cleaned out a lot of clutter from the garage and inside the house. I even took two large items to Goodwill - that long, heavy rectangular box with some sort of computer equipment that Sam never shipped to Guam (probably because no one ever paid him for it) and Mom and Dads' old stereo case. I kept the turntable but not sure why. This week I am determined to deal with Quentin's old school papers piled up on my desk in the front room! FREEDOM.
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I like the idea of freedom from stuff. I think that's why I had a hard time this last Christmas. I hated buying all that plastic landfill. It seemed so wasteful and meaningless. I'm thinking of doing all homemade next time. We have some friends here who were at ground zero for Hurricane Katrina and lost everything. He said what he learned from it was that all that stuff really didn't matter.
Amen, sister!
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