{"id":3122,"date":"2018-06-01T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T22:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2018-06-01T15:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T22:54:59","slug":"transitions-what-to-let-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/01\/transitions-what-to-let-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Transitions: what to let go&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3123\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3123\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3123\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/06\/image-2.jpg?resize=800%2C599\" alt=\"Image 2\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>These attic baked dolls seem a bit creepy now but at one time this were my most prized objects!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This past week my extended family gathered to help pack up my mom\u2019s life in the sprawling home she built with my father some 30 years ago to move into a two-room apartment at the back of my house. Needless to say, this means things need to be let go. This wasn\u2019t a sudden decision, so my mom has had over 6 months to start sorting into three piles: keep, give away, dump. At the beginning my mom was reluctant to let some precious items go even though she knew she wouldn\u2019t use them because frankly she didn\u2019t use them now. Things like a porcelain tea pot my grandma made that was shoved in the back of a cupboard for 30 years since the last move, old photo albums with unidentified pictures, my dad\u2019s report cards from middle school. When you have space you just fill the void but moving forces a cleansing especially a move like this one. My Mom read \u201cThe Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter\u201d. This book helped her a lot to let things go, she tried to pass things on to family but there are just some things nobody wants and those just had to go.<\/p>\n<p>I even had a reckoning of my own in this cleaning process. When my parents moved to this past home they told we three children that they would store a foot lockers worth of items in their attic. They give us each a small trunk and at 18 looking at the precious items in my bedroom I chose the things that were sacred and special to me then. The pile of dolls pictured above is a collection from my sister and I\u2019s trunks. I also saved a vast stack of Cricket Magazines, for some reason the stories and art in those magazines were prized to me at one time but for the life of me now I couldn\u2019t fathom why I\u2019d kept them for over 35 years. There were the a bean bag dolls called Larry Legs that my Grandma made and a red metal cash register. In the end I only kept the red cash register and even that I\u2019m not sure why.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3124\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3124\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3124\" src=\"https:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/06\/image.jpg?resize=800%2C600\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The bean bag dolls my grandma made for me a bit frayed and weary after all these years.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting what we save. Some things out of inertia \u2013 it gets put on a shelf on a whim and never touched again till moving day. Other things we wrap in velvet and ribbon a put in our underwear drawer for safe keeping- love letters, old photos, wedding garments \u2013 proof of our youth and wild ways. 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