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A Walk Down Memory Lane: Thoughts on Moving

I do not like to move because it is stressful and I never know what too get rid of and what to keep. The last time I moved was when Mom and I moved from the apartment to this house. We moved from a small place to a bigger place, which, I realize now, was a huge mistake. We moved a lot of stuff from the apartment to the house, but it did not fill the entire house. While living here we collected more stuff and I have to get rid of most of it because I am moving to a studio apartment, at least that is my plan today.

Making a House a Home

Unwrapping
early Christmas presents:
I remove

layer by layer
self-sticking decorative paper
from wooden shelves.

Revealing
the naked wood
to the light of day,

I let knotted eyes
look again
upon the real world.

1 Sultan 152 B.E.

I wrote that poem when we first moved into this house. I wrote it after cleaning out shelves in the pantry. I presume I will write another poem when I move into the new place. Now, I just want to write a poem to alleviate the stress of moving to a smaller place.

Unmaking a Home

Item by item
I sort through the stuff
accumulated over the years.

Two people can acquire
huge amounts
of precious junk
that must me removed
when one person
has to move.

11 Mashíyyat 170 B.E.

Food for Thought: “I give you this to take with you:
Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can
begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” - Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters