Flotsam, Jetsam, Black Friday
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Stuff in the Basement - Writer & educator J. Schaap writes about life and the things that matter to him.
It's hard to take an honest look at the things that surround your life. So many things we cling to are worthless or on their way to becoming worthless. Do you ever wonder what will happen to your stuff after you die? How much of it will matter to anyone else. Writer J. Schaap considers the fate of things in his piece, "Flotsam, Jetsam." Yesterday was "Black Friday," but my wife and I are at that age when it's far more prudent to get rid of stuff than buy new things, this massive old house we live in filled with what is destined to become, soon enough, life's own flotsam and jetsam. Our age requires our downsizing. Right here before me sits a cream-colored Chinese cow, carved from marble, a homecoming present from a beloved colleague who often traveled to China. In just twenty years, who will care about it? Nobody. That cow will have to go--if not soon, eventually. I'm sounding morbid. Maybe. But I'm being real...Click here to read more.
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