practice discardia

gave away about 4 canvas shopping bags of clothes, baskets, books and other general “stuff” to a friend who is having a garage sale.
Drop in the bucket really…but what the hey…

Deleted nearly 6,000 unread emails and unsubscribed to anything I don’t read.

Deleted nearly 6,000 unread emails and unsubscribed to anything I don’t read.

This goal has kinda become the focus for my life this last week. I’m on an “imposed” vacation while my boss looks for a gig for me. Had 2 lined up but the company wouldn’t negoiate the cost for me so now I’m just hanging around.

Not sure why, but it feels like it’s the right time to discard a bunch of stuff.

Including some old “baggage” from the past, some additional weight I’ve picked up over the last year, and mind clutter. Want to come out of this time with a cleaned out car and a cleaned out office space.

That would be time well spent…

Thinking that for me right now, this is a spiritual exercise.

FINALLY arrived! I think this will help with getting some stuff out of the house without feeling guilty about throwing it away.

Threw out a bunch of stuff from the “junk drawer” in the bathroom. Not sure why, but that draw has been the place all kinds of miscellanously crap goes for years. It’s always irritated me because it’s not usable any more.

Need to dump the whole thing and start over as far as I’m concerned but not sure how that’d go over with the other folks in the house.

Slow movement is better than standing still I guess.

Cleared off a big pile of paper from the counter and the table. Felt good to sort it out and just get it organized or trashed!

Had junk mail and wish there was a way to get them to stop delievering it like there is in the UK.

It’s just such a waste of paper.

Was friends with a guy named S. until some women started gossiping about us. They are stupid!!
We were just having fun and being silly. In real life we were great friends. It was alot of work to be friends with him because neither of us takes risks very easily.

He’s ignoring me now even though he says there’s not a problem between us. I know there is and he’s just clammed up.

So I’ve decided to just let him and our friendship go. I don’t see any alternative except to continue to try to work things out and convince him that they were completely lying about me and wrong about our friendship. That will just make us both crazy.

I’m very sad about this loss because it is out of my control, I’ve done nothing wrong, he’s done nothing wrong and yet we’ve both lost out on a friendship that could have been professionally as well as personally satisifying. I thought we’d all end up friends for a long time. Too bad he has chosen to let a couple busybodies ruin it.

Sucks, but gotta let it go….

when I was a kid. Weirdly, I thought I’d worked all this out in my 20s but apparently not.
The notes from my old friend have really helped me focus on what was “wacky” about that experience and why I’ve carried around these crazy ideas about God, church and religion in general around for all these years.

Realized that my embarrassment with that one particular crazy place has carried over into being ashamed at believing in God, Jesus etc. for all these years.

Shared portions of the notes with 3 very trusted friends which has been interesting. Still feel a bit timid and embarrassed to be “needy” and “wounded”. Hate that actually, but am glad to not have to hide the wounds any more. It has been good to hear from someone else that can verify some of what I heard growing up. Helps me know I wasn’t misintrepreting what I heard.

Hard to believe how wacked out that place really was. Hearing “that place is sick…” from a pastor friend really set me on my heels a bit.

So today I participated in my first ever war protest but it was more than that. It was a way to toss off my political apathy and quit sitting on the sidelines.
Protesting was a way for me to become engaged in the process of democracy in this country and in the world.
I highly value decocracy and freedom but for too many years I’ve just exercised that value by voting. It’s important to me, to take that value and stretch it a bit more by becoming more active in the process by protesting, volunteering for the election campaign and voting.
This was a good thing to toss because there was something better to replace it with and that’s Political Involvement.