Letting go

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
A huge part of moving house – especially moving into a smaller apartment – is decluttering. Well, at least for anyone who doesn’t follow the “take out an equal amount that you bring in” mantra religiously. Suffice to say [...]

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Tidbit Insightings, June 5

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
Summer has come, at last. So far, it’s been a few days of sunshine and heat wave followed by four days of rain. On the bright side, the plants on our yard have [...]

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It’s just my opinion

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
Yesterday, I got to witness a meeting unlike anything I’ve ever seen. An actual, official meeting, where the chair walked out midway through. There was a lot of antagonism in the air, and a lot of it took place [...]

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Miscellaneous mid-move Insightings

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.
Ashleigh Brilliant
It’s Day Three of the Great Move. So far, we’ve managed to get most of the essentials to the new place, but there’s still a lot left to pack at the old apartment.
Even though a move only counts for [...]

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Enough

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao-Tzu.
When I was little, and had only learned a bit of English, I wrote a story. In English. I don’t remember what it was about,but I remember writing a sentence “She cried and cried until she had cried anaff enuf e n o u [...]

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