Hi friends!
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It’s been a while — we’re in the middle of a big move! Not just moving houses, no, but re-locating to another country! It’s all happening soooo fast, and I’m running out of time!
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For the last 10 years we live in a really spacious house with an attic and a cellar, and plenty of storage! It was convenient, and felt just right for the time being, but I’m now learning it the hard way: DO NOT KEEP ALL YOUR MEMORIES!
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That’s what I did. I kept children’s drawings and toys, all the photographs and their schoolbooks, their favorite books and first spoons, their yearbooks and their graduation hats — and so much more!
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On top of that, when my father died, I also inherited and kept some of his memories — photo albums, more books, his memoir (!) and more than one-thousand slides, …. I’ll stop here.
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Letting go of these things scares the hell out of me. I feel great sadness as I must reduce it to a fraction. I worry that by loosing that object, I also get detached from all the nice memories, and I might forget over time. At the same time, as I work through the process, one item at a time, I feel like inside a time-machine. My entire life seems to have enrolled in front of me once again. And I get a sense of closure.
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Maybe you understand why I have not been able to draw or write very much, but I started to ache for my sketchbook habit. So this morning, despite the messy and cluttered desk, I pulled out my sketchbook and a pencil, and did this sketch.
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I was so relaxed afterwards. Now it’s back to sorting, packing and distributing. Only two more weeks. Wish me luck, please!
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Vi ses i Denmark 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
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