Comments on: Decluttering http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/ Jason Dufair's weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:26:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: bine http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5161 bine Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:40:05 +0000 http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5161 whenever i visit my dad for a few days and there’s a change in the weather for which i didn’t bring the right coat, i pick one of my mom’s coats or sweaters i didn’t give away. i still find her stuff in the pockets - two essential items were always a handkerchief and a roll of glucose drops. sometimes a shopping list or a pebble, or some seeds she picked off some wild flower she wanted in her garden. her flowers are all gone now, the foxgloves, the larkspur, the columbine. my father planted roses. whenever i visit my dad for a few days and there’s a change in the weather for which i didn’t bring the right coat, i pick one of my mom’s coats or sweaters i didn’t give away. i still find her stuff in the pockets - two essential items were always a handkerchief and a roll of glucose drops. sometimes a shopping list or a pebble, or some seeds she picked off some wild flower she wanted in her garden.
her flowers are all gone now, the foxgloves, the larkspur, the columbine. my father planted roses.

]]> By: jase http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5160 jase Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:25:45 +0000 http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5160 Missy - that was actually the line that caused me to want to post it. It crystallizes the idea/question that I return to again and again when I look back on our marriage. I do feel more resolved about it than I did maybe 6 months ago though. Missy - that was actually the line that caused me to want to post it. It crystallizes the idea/question that I return to again and again when I look back on our marriage. I do feel more resolved about it than I did maybe 6 months ago though.

]]> By: Missy http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5123 Missy Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:55:37 +0000 http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5123 "In my own hand Are written down the sum and the crude items of my inadequacy." This is the line that stays with me for some reason. “In my own hand
Are written down the sum and the crude items of my inadequacy.”

This is the line that stays with me for some reason.

]]> By: Suburban Mum http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5049 Suburban Mum Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:14:45 +0000 http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5049 Just beautiful. And what with the news of Liam too, I'm welling up here. Just beautiful. And what with the news of Liam too, I’m welling up here.

]]> By: venessa http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5018 venessa Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:39:02 +0000 http://jase.dufair.org/2007/06/14/decluttering/#comment-5018 That's a beautiful poem. We as a culture always think that dying is the ultimate sacrifice, almost forgetting the pain of those still living. When I think about John and I getting old, I sometimes wonder what would be worse, dying first or second? Would depend on how much life we had lived? Hmm. That’s a beautiful poem. We as a culture always think that dying is the ultimate sacrifice, almost forgetting the pain of those still living.

When I think about John and I getting old, I sometimes wonder what would be worse, dying first or second? Would depend on how much life we had lived? Hmm.

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