I’ve been doing a general apartment cleaning, as I do periodically. If you’ve been through it, you know what it’s like.<\/p>\n
You throw out lots and lots of things, and keep fewer things. I think it’s healthy for us to perform this ritual every once in a while. We change, and our stuff needs to change as well, in order to continue to be our stuff, rather than the stuff of some former version of us.<\/p>\n
It can be tempting to focus on all of these objects that are suddenly no longer around. But that would be the wrong place to focus.<\/p>\n
It’s not what you throw away that’s important. It’s what you keep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been doing a general apartment cleaning, as I do periodically. If you’ve been through it, you know what it’s like. You throw out lots and lots of things, and keep fewer things. I think it’s healthy for us to perform this ritual every once in a while. We change, and our stuff needs to … Continue reading “What you keep”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24163,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24162\/revisions\/24163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}