my sympathies on the move - my not having to do that these past decades has been one comfort to me in a hard world. And on your relinquished books also; I'm purging paperbacks in handfuls out to the neighborhood Free Library boxes and I miss them too, even though I can't see the tiny print anymore. But my reward, should I manage to clear one whole bookshelf, will be to get the wide dresser I've never had. So I got that going for me.
I listened to your voice reading this. Thank you for this, Doc. I look at my books that line the walls of every room in my Brooklyn garret, unable yet to do the “Swedish death cleaning,” knowing I must begin.
my sympathies on the move - my not having to do that these past decades has been one comfort to me in a hard world. And on your relinquished books also; I'm purging paperbacks in handfuls out to the neighborhood Free Library boxes and I miss them too, even though I can't see the tiny print anymore. But my reward, should I manage to clear one whole bookshelf, will be to get the wide dresser I've never had. So I got that going for me.
I feel you.
I listened to your voice reading this. Thank you for this, Doc. I look at my books that line the walls of every room in my Brooklyn garret, unable yet to do the “Swedish death cleaning,” knowing I must begin.
I bathe in your stream of consciousness. Thanks for letting it flow.
Moving sucks the big one. I'm dreading it