Right again!
See, I knew posting would work. Just like heading for the bathroom makes the waitperson show up at your table in a restaurant.
Moment 2: We were talking about why we hang onto 'stuff' that doesn't energize us anymore and I thought of a tchatchke that I've been hanging onto for 10 years, unwilling to let it go but not sure what to do with it: an empty sake bottle brought home from my then-choir's trip to Japan to sing in the massed choir on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
It was an important and amazing trip and a milestone for me because I had to finally make my name change legal to get the passport. I have several mementos of the places we saw and connections we made, and I've never known what to do with but can't bring myself to discard (they aren't something anyone else would want, for the most part): classic clutter. I am fond of the sake bottle because it is one of several that I emptied at dinner with my friends Holly and Matthew, getting drunker and drunker with each shout of "Kampai!" After dinner we wandered the retail neighborhood looking for some harmless PG fun and ended up playing pool when the bowling alley didn't have shoes that would fit Matthew. Drunk as a skunk and very silly, I still kicked ass and took names in that pool game, and the memory always makes me smile.
So, how to keep the memory present and let go of the physical reminder that has become clutter?
On-line scrap-booking!!
And only now, after all my "aha!" and excitement, do I notice the ScrapBook link in the menu bar. I shoulda known it already existed...
Moment 2: We were talking about why we hang onto 'stuff' that doesn't energize us anymore and I thought of a tchatchke that I've been hanging onto for 10 years, unwilling to let it go but not sure what to do with it: an empty sake bottle brought home from my then-choir's trip to Japan to sing in the massed choir on the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima.
It was an important and amazing trip and a milestone for me because I had to finally make my name change legal to get the passport. I have several mementos of the places we saw and connections we made, and I've never known what to do with but can't bring myself to discard (they aren't something anyone else would want, for the most part): classic clutter. I am fond of the sake bottle because it is one of several that I emptied at dinner with my friends Holly and Matthew, getting drunker and drunker with each shout of "Kampai!" After dinner we wandered the retail neighborhood looking for some harmless PG fun and ended up playing pool when the bowling alley didn't have shoes that would fit Matthew. Drunk as a skunk and very silly, I still kicked ass and took names in that pool game, and the memory always makes me smile.
So, how to keep the memory present and let go of the physical reminder that has become clutter?
On-line scrap-booking!!
And only now, after all my "aha!" and excitement, do I notice the ScrapBook link in the menu bar. I shoulda known it already existed...