Now most of time I have what one would call great ideas and thoughts. However these desires fueled by emotion and absolute clarity in what I have experienced as intention. Lets go back in time for a moment........
Wadworth Holme I moved into 1 June 2007 with the help of a of dear friend who helped me move. Well I had already been warned by my brother whom very strongly suggested I make alternative arrangements as he had moved me enough times to be a professional at it. Well I had moved 10 times in 6 years and he had done 6 of the 10 moves!
I arrived at Wadworth Holme with 30 boxes which occupied half of the double garage. I could face the boxes for the first year but eventually when I did, I wish I had started earlier if only I knew the enormous emotional relief I would experience but "de-cluttering" well the long of the short is I have 5 boxes left which consist of photo albums, books, important files (papers) few sentimental items. I am getting of my ship in literally 2 weeks time so I had to step up a gear in terms of getting organised!
Over the years people have moved in and out and the other open space of the garage well became a dumping ground so myself and Aggy and Magic (as my Mom called him), Lee and Mom got stuck in and took everything out the garage and repacked it very neatly and had a "junk - don't not know who it belongs to" pile. The major task was getting the huge 3 piece cupboards which I had bought to fit all my clothes into the garage and return the tiny cupboard and chest of drawers to my room. Mission complete, the best part was making a huge fire from all the wood from an old cupboard, Magic took the time to get his electric drill out and take one screw out at a time, how thoughtful. Subconsciously I am very aware of things I will most with ship life, so I did not hesitate to dive into the deep freezer and find something to put to the "braai" there was something about having a braai all on my own and cooking the meat and the coals that were once my cupboards!
Now in my head I was thinking ok 3 birds with one stone, as I need to make a plan to consume all the food I have, get rid of all this wood and experience a new experience!
In between all this I had the laptop going with ALL the thousands of CD's and DVD's I have collected over the years, I was ripping the content onto my hard drive so I could then transfer it to my itunes library and have ALL my music at the touch of a button. The other aspect was loading them on to Amazon.com for sale as I had previously benefited from the exercise with many books.........and what I can not sell I will pass to the Charity shop.
New day.......I was awoken by the birds this morning and that is another thing I will miss dearly. This was around 05h31, I got up and made a cup of tea returned to bed opened window to let the fresh morning breeze in and just enjoy listening to the birds. I felt a bit pecking so I made myself some "jungle oats" my favourite only found in South Africa which I get from out local SA shop. Again something that will be missed.
I thought ok time for a walk, jumped into my tracksuit and looked up at where my keys normally hang and thought mmmmm ok where are my keys......then I suddenly remembered leaving them in the ignition of car and slowly creaped up the kitchen window just to check if the car was still there, knowing full well it would be. Then thought that is one of the reason I choose to live here!
I then went for my morning walk which is about 20 to 30 minutes, for the first time I noticed all the slugs and snails in my path and had to make a real effort not to stand on them. The birds were pulling there worms out the grass and singing away.
Got back hoped in the car and drove down to the local centre where the Charity shop is and unpacked 3 bags and 2 boxes of unwanted clothes, shoes and bits.
Well today I will carry out the important bits, like my paperwork so till next chapter"!
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