stuff

This was a busy crazy week and my dear sweet daughter endured 5 hours of testing, psycho educational evaluation.  I also got to spend time with a dear old friend who has been willing to take some of the stuff that ended up in my house but came from my dad.

I continue to watch my mother be burdened by the too many things she owns, things she can’t physically manage, take care of or often organize, even her papers and files.  And as my mind continues to focus on the issues of owning so much stuff and how that limits mobility and independence on all levels but especially physical, I watch another friend on the west coast struggling mightily with no permanent home, largely though no truly fault of her own besides bad decisions and trusting the wrong man, she is burdened by her belongings, her stuff.  Storage is expensive and really a bandaid solution.  While this friend does have some valuable and hard to replace items, and I cannot walk in her shoes, I am not sure that she has really done a true sort and made the sorts of hard decisions that her situation really seems to require.

I think that if one has physical challenges either through disease, accident or simply aging that one has to find a way to live a simple and easier life with fewer things in order to stay as independent as possible if one does not have a partner or children or friends who are willing to share their living space etc with you.  This does not mean giving up activities that are vital to your wellbeing (intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical) but to truly think about each and every item especially things like furniture.

I would do to live by my own words and I am trying but life has been busy and I am tired and grieving and my dh still doesn’t feel well quite often which is sad and scary too.

And I did end up buying yarn last week on my birthday.  The necklace/bracelet kit is proving to be frustrating and disappointing.  The bulky local yarn is gorgeous but I may see if my DIL wants it, she is an inspired knitter and crocheter too.  The last yarn which I am thinking of making into a hat is this one (it’s the resolution yarn for sure and I think it’s the yellow base:

Firecracker Recycled Resolution Silk Yarn