Take The Time And Make Some Room
Published on December 03, 2014
We are all likely aware of the TV reality show that focuses the cameras on those now referred to as hoarders. Those among us who become so attached to their "stuff" that they can't get rid of anything and as a result end up buried by it. We all have the potential to get "buried" in our own stuff. For many of us "the stuff" is not necessarily boxes of books and t-shirts, Christmas ornaments or fishing lures. "The Stuff" many of us continue to lug around has no real purpose and doesn't really fit with why or how we get through the day. It's just "our stuff". It's the habits we form. The jobs we cling to. The relationships that don't enhance or the work that does not serve us or anyone else. What brought this all about in the Calderon of thought today was a book I happened to start reading by chance. It is an old book my wife's sister read and leant to her. It was written the year I was born, 1955 by Anne Morrow, the wife of the famed Charles Lindbergh. The book is called Gift From the Sea and in it is her own account of trying to make sense of life and the search we are all on. She was recounting her experience of getting away to a little cabin on the beach and how much she realized all "the stuff" had only complicated her life. She wrote that she did not miss the fine carpets or running water. The curtains on the windows or an abundance of furniture. She wrote, "I am even shedding the hypocrisy in human relationships. The most exhausting thing in life I have discovered is being insincere". I know that spring will not be upon us for sometime but it would seem now would be a great time for a little spring cleaning. That stuff that clutters up life can suffocate what truly matters and we are the only ones to sit in judgment of that. Do that then. Take the time and make some room. Have an excellent day.
Be well,
Randy Taylor
