All This Will Be Yours Someday..Or Perhaps Not

  I don’t know about you, but I have helped my parent go through the process of sorting out their life‘s possessions and winnowing them down.  A large three bedroom house’s worth of stuff was squeezed into a bedroom/sitting room.  In the process, I have acquired a number of things which I have sentimental value, but left my own home bursting at the seams.    Now I’m faced with an empty nest, and I want to be mindful about all that I have acquired.  It’s really important to me to reduce the accumulation of things, while continuing to build memorable experiences.  Most of the items are imbued with some level of “what was” or “what might have been.”  I feel the need to both honor and celebrate, but also to acknowledge where the potential or utility of some thing no longer exists for me. Of course there is that terrifying possibility that after I give up something, either by selling it or giving it away -  or in extreme cases,  just throwing...