Porter Hall

is locking in the freshness.



I'm doing 9 things
 

How I did it
How to sell my boat
It took me
4 years
It made me
relieved


How to think positively
It took me
7 days
It made me
calm


How to pick myself up from the canvas
It took me
6 months
It made me
happy


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Recent entries
See the 50 IMDb top-rated "independent" films (read all 4 entries…)
Seen and Still To Be Seen 8 months ago
Seen
  • Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
  • Amadeus (1984)
  • Invasions barbares, Les (2003)
Still To Be Seen
  • Léon aka The Professional (1994)
  • Voyna i mir aka War and Peace (1968)
  • Requiem for a Dream (2000)
  • Campanadas a medianoche aka Falstaff—not on DVD (1965)
  • The War Game (1965)
  • The Message (1976)
  • Amores perros (2000)
  • A Man for All Seasons (1966)
  • Vozvrashcheniye (2003)
  • Kes (1969)
  • The Straight Story (1999)
  • This Sporting Life (1963)
  • Repulsion (1965)
  • Mysterious Skin (2004)
  • Punishment Park (1971)
  • Henry V (1989)
  • Zulu (1964)


See the 50 IMDb top-rated "independent" films (read all 4 entries…)
Still to be seen 15 months ago

Léon aka The Professional (1994)
Voyna i mir aka War and Peace (1968)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Amadeus (1984)
Campanadas a medianoche aka Falstaff—not on DVD (1965)
The War Game (1965)
The Message (1976)
Amores perros (2000)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Vozvrashcheniye (2003)
Kes (1969)
The Straight Story (1999)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Repulsion (1965)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Punishment Park (1971)
Henry V (1989)
Invasions barbares, Les (2003)
Zulu (1964)



declutter my life (read all 2 entries…)
The Emotional Mass of Items 15 months ago

So many of the tens of thousands of items in my life have emotional connections to them. I think of this just two days after leaving my late wife’s car at an auto dealership, having traded it in for a yet-to-be-delivered new one.

She got this car before she met me and it became our car. I should have replaced it a long time ago—it had been partially disabled for nine months!

It took me such a long time to let go of it because of all the emotional energy it stored for me. In that way, it was a talisman.

There was no touching good-bye scene at the car lot between me and this little Honda. I cleaned it out, closed the door, and walked away from it. It wasn’t difficult at all. The fear of severing that emotional connection was worse than the act of severing itself.

In most cases, we love not the object, but what it symbolizes in our head. Digital photos can stand in as links to those memories when the object no longer adequately fills its functional purpose in our lives.

from Poor Yorick’s Almanack



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