anti-tip

Packing anti-tip the forty-seventh: do not read old journals when packing them. Just put. Them in. The box. And then step. Away. From the box.

It’s not that you’ll be surprised at what you’ll find in there. You wrote it, all of it. It’s that you’ll spend more time reading them than you did writing them and you have kept a diary since you were 7 and that’s a freaking lot of journals and the movers come in 11 days and you still have a few more boxes of CDs you don’t listen to anymore to load and why did you never unpack or throw away this box of bubble-wrapped bottles of perfume you have never worn?

I pick up the keys to my new place in eight hours. Zen is fast asleep next to me, twitching as she knocks over coffee-filled mugs in her dreams. Even the FuzzyClock reminds me it is much later than bedtime, but I don’t want to sleep through these last moments of three years here. This day is the tip of a fern unfurling to new light.

Posted on 15 May 2007 in Diary

http://blogtopicz.com zenny

Moving sucks. yup, yup.
http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/ Mihaela Lica

“It’s not that you’ll be surprised at what you’ll find in there. ” …

Are you sure? Sometimes, spending time reading those traces from our past may come with a surprise. Meanings we didn’t see at that time. Hidden meanings. New lights…

I enjoy reading my old journals and I like to take my time when I do. I take a cup of hot tea and I get my fuzzy blanket… Then I let my feelings flow back in time, to what used to define me.

I think moving is not the right time, but those moments from the past are really worth…
http://davidbdale.wordpress.com davidbdale

Beautiful writing, black swan! Why did you not take me by the elbow and drag me here earlier? I see now what I’ve been missing! Step. Away. From the box. Very smart and funny! See you again soon!