“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” ~ unknown
A short status update…
Sorting and selecting continued this past week as we take inventory of what is truly essential for our future mobile life.
Staff from Caring Transitions, who are handling our estate sale, stopped by. It’s always great to hear, “No problem, we’ll take care of all of it.” So far we can’t say enough nice things about these folks and they are keeping our heads above water.
Today was the day our children came to take those items they wanted from our house. We’d told them they could have whatever they wanted as long as it was something they would use and that they pick it up — we were not delivering and all “sales” were final! The house is barer tonight — we’re sleeping on the bed from the guest room and the “Hackintosh” computer I built and its two large monitors, among other things, are starting a new life else where.
It’s interesting times…a lot of mixed emotions…a lot of excitement for the future!
“A lot of mixed emotions.” I think that says it all. I experience them as I slowly downsize my life and struggle to keep it simple. I’m excited for you two.
Thanks, Monte!
Downsizing and simplifying – a fascinating process for sure. I’m guessing that there must be at least a few short moments when panic (or fear of change) enters your thought process!
An interesting image, Brooks. I have to admit, though, that I’m struggling a little with the flare at the bottom right. It’s obviously intentional and I am in no way criticizing its use. It’s just that that kind of brightness – call it “flare” or whatever – is something that will cause me to reject one of my own images if I can’t “fix” it. For me, that kind of extreme brightness is too distracting. But pay me no mind! Art criticism has never been one of my stronger talents.
Paul, we’ve certainly face moments of panic and fear but it never last long. I would be more worried about my state of mind if I wasn’t experiencing a little panic.
That bottom right “flare” is a failure on my part in the execution of a idea. I was thinking to illustrate the caption, “In the process of completion,” by having part of the image (lower right) being an un-colored outline gradually becoming the full colored image. I thought this would be symbolic of our current process of transitioning to our RV — didn’t work.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have posted it but I’m kinda past doing what I “should do.” :-) I was wondering what, if anything, would be said about it and I appreciate your honesty. Thanks!
It’s funny, I got your intent with the photograph from its title but didn’t connect it to what’s happening with your life. I guess I was thinking of the change you’re going through as a beginning rather than a completion but now I see that you are referring to your old life. I’m a bit slow.
Not slow at all, Cedric. But it’s very clear with this process there has to be an ending before we can switch mentally and emotionally to a beginning…even if they seem to be over-lapping. It’s like a relationship, to have a healthy new one there needs to be closure to the old one.
I haven’t had time or energy to do an update this week. It’s been a bit insane here — the sale people are in our house sorting and preparing all our things for the estate sale next week while we are moving what we can take into the RV. At the same time I’m going through the RV electrical, plumbing, gas and waste systems–plus it’s physical/mechanical systems–testing, adjusting and in some cases fixing issues I find. We move to a nearby RV park in two days! Lots of posts material for sure, but it will have to wait a while. Still smiling! :-)