Hard Decisions

My daughter recently moved into a new - open concept - apartment. To make her new home look uncluttered, she has had to get rid of a lot of things that she was holding on to - in case she ever needed them...

It has been very liberating, she told me. I feel great whenever I take out another recycling bin of paper. Or whenever I give away furniture I no longer want. Slowly the place is looking the way I want it to - uncluttered!

I think of her enthusiasm for de-cluttering as I survey the boxes of papers (remnants of my teaching days) that clutter my study.

Will I feel as happy if I recycle these? Do I want to sort through them ever again? What if I decide to create more teaching material (a highly unlikely possibility!)?

So much time has gone into these papers... it's hard to just toss them...

But maybe that's what I really need to do!