April 18, 2011

Letting Go

I am in the process of downsizing my 'stuff' by half. This has been a ten year project to date and I am actually beginning to see the tunnel, though not quite the light at the end of it.

Without premeditated intent I've some how turned this spring into a firestorm of shucking off the unnecessary, very successfully, because I've taken to heart the advice from Rick Levine I read March 16. "Staying detached from the outcome creates enough sacred space for an original solution to magically unfold." I am just, letting go, no strings, good bye. I've come to see superfluous multiple possessions as something like these rocks. Balanced? Perhaps. Frozen? Absolutely. I'm pulling the lynch pin and letting things fall where they may.

Does this mean I've become a zealot, wearing sackcloth and ash and haranguing others to do as I do, do as I say? Hardly. I love my stuff...what remains, because it is truly what I enjoy seeing and using and find beautiful. Without the burden of too much, too many, all being too reflective of poor stewardship of the one life I have.

To that end of downsizing by half I am also shutting down my quilt blog . I am in the process of flinging old posts that are irrelevant to my life and keeping the only ones that mean something to me. You are welcome to drop by and read what will remain, although it is probably more of me than anyone is willing to know. And I can always be found at my keeper half of blogging, Quirkeries. Say hello once in awhile.

Sharyn