Letting Go

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In preparation for an exterior paint job, Seda and I spent a couple of days last week clearing out the contents of the garden shed. It’s a beautiful space that once housed chickens as well as tools and has been functioning lately as a staging space for upcoming builds. In the course of sifting and sorting, it became clear that many items and building materials no longer fit our needs or trajectory, so we put them out on the driveway to find new homes.

Lugging chunks of concrete bigger than my head and ragged 2 X4’s to the curb, I had a felt sense of flow. How can we be open to receiving the items that are best suited to our present-future if our storage space is full of the past? It’s so satisfying to see folks picking up what we put down, and so delicious to encounter the order and empty space left behind. What will you let go of this week and what are you making space for?