stuff

We all have too much stuff.

And, we are all going to move into smaller quarters one day. Those are the givens.

If we really want to cause our families a lot of work, we can hang onto all of this stuff and let them clear it out after we are gone (temporarily or permanently). But, if we really love them, we really should make a really serious shot at reducing all of this stuff.

Sure is easy to talk about it, but not so easy to follow through.

Helped move a woman a while back. She is about my age, which is early ancient. She had thousands and thousands of books. Her new living room has steel floor to celling book cases lined up like the stacks in an old college library.

Family told her to get rid of a lot of them, but says she, they are her friends. Some one will get the task of going through all of them one day. Lucky them.

Every so often I get going on a serious attempt to reduce our collection. It goes pretty good for a while, but never quite makes it over the line to noticeably serious.

As an artist I have had great empathy with the minimalists. As a human I am not quite so minimal, but like christian perfection, it is an endeavor worth pursuing.

I think.