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Letting Go of the Past
May. 23rd, 2021 09:30 amLisa has been working her way through clearing up stuff we have stored in the garage, including many boxes of things that I had in my storage locker in Yuba City. This means that stuff that I've had sitting in boxes since my college days has surfaced and I've had to decide what to do with it. I have, for example, decided to trash old planning calendars from the 1980s and 1990s, and most recently, I had a pile of paper that needed diagnosing.
( Making Use of Old Green-bar paper )
I have mixed feelings about disposing of this material. It removes ties to past memories, but the physical material uses up space we would like to use for other things (including freeing up storage space for staging material for Westercon 74 next spring), and it isn't useful for anything other than sentiment, so logically, disposing of it in a way that's at least vaguely useful was the right thing to do. The memories are still there, after all, as they are part of my education that earns me a pretty good living today.
( Making Use of Old Green-bar paper )
I have mixed feelings about disposing of this material. It removes ties to past memories, but the physical material uses up space we would like to use for other things (including freeing up storage space for staging material for Westercon 74 next spring), and it isn't useful for anything other than sentiment, so logically, disposing of it in a way that's at least vaguely useful was the right thing to do. The memories are still there, after all, as they are part of my education that earns me a pretty good living today.
