This is the continuation of last post, though it stands alone just fine. I thought I should include some little specifics about my life, for your enjoyment and curiosity.
Yesterday I went blueberry picking with Suzannah and a friend. Huge amounts of blueberries. Like two small buckets worth. I spent over an hour sorting through them, making sure the bugs had a chance to leave and pulling out the bad berries.
Suzannah then went to our old house and picked bags of peaches, to keep the branches from breaking under their weight. Not ripe yet, but many had to be culled to protect those that remain. There's a life lesson in that I think. Hopefully they will ripen on their own. We will see.
One of our cats is licking her lower nipples so much that he has bald patches around them. Nobody knows why, but she's always been an odd one, so perhaps there isn't a good reason. The vet didn't seem to know either.
We saw an owl a few times last week during our evening walks, and heard it hooting once as well. very cool. It was absolutely silent when it flew away.
My computer was finally so slow that I took a good couple hours setting up a "read later" app and storing most of my unread open web pages in it so I could close them. That seemed to do the trick, and now my computer is running much faster.
This seems to be the solution to much of my clutter problem, especially digitally: I just store all the clutter somewhere simple and out of sight, but where I know I can access it when I need it.
My computer is a good metaphor for me, in that my brain also runs more smoothly when this decluttering gets done. In terms of all the tasks I want to do, I've got a similar thing. I just stick them in a "someday/maybe" list, so I can fool myself into thinking they're taken care of, and then I don't have to think about or worry about them any more, but it's not as painful or difficult as having to decide I'm never going to do them.
Since it just amounts to a few slips of paper or digital documents, the cost of keeping it, as long as it's well contained and out of view, is close to zero.
I think it's a good idea for all the physical stuff in my life I don't know what to do with, but only as an interim step, since that actually does take up room and ends up being more work, any time I have to move, or fish something that I actually want out from among all the stuff I don't. Or when I don't have enough room for it all, and it ends up making my living spaces feel cluttered.
Oh, one more thing, Suzannah chopped off the tip of her thumb, and it was a little serious, so she's without the use of her left thumb for a while, and I'm doing the things that require two thumbs, or getting both hands wet, like dishes.
Gonna leave it at that. In fact, this was a long one, so I'll split it into two and be caught up with last week and this week.
Love, be well,
-Isaac
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