I started this blog post a week ago. It has morphed a few times and I’ve hesitated to send it out, wondering to myself, “what does packing and sorting out books and papers have to do with healing and rebuilding?” This morning it came to me. When you are not feeling well, stuff can be a big problem. When your mental capacity is reduced because your body is on the fritz, the more stuff you have to think about and work around the harder it is to do anything. The less you have to deal with just to get through the day, the better. Furthermore, periodically weeding out the stuff in your life gives you an opportunity to revisit ideas and projects and people and memories that you may be carrying into present time, but are no longer relevant, or simply need to be let go. Prompting my current motivation to sort through my things is a pending move from Northern Virginia to Annapolis, Maryland. When I was younger I moved about as often as I changed jobs. I used to say, as a joke (ha ha), that I moved every year because it was the best way to clean Read More…