Changes In The Home

I just returned from a trip to Washington and California with a passport for change in my life. My wife and I made an offer on a house in Port Townsend, Washington that has been basically accepted. We're moving to Washington to a house with a high bank view of the ocean. We've dreamed of doing this for the last 13 years, so we've found a place and are ready to move.

Now that we're back in Santa Fe, we are getting our current house ready to sell it. It's a beautiful house and we're just putting some finishing touches on it so it will be more appealing to people looking to buy a house. Interestingly, I notice that clearing the house so it looks appealing to buyers dovetails nicely with my desire to get rid of anything I don't want to take with me to my new life in Washington. In other words, getting rid of clutter and things I no longer want or use is beneficial for both things that are foremost in my life right now. I have a feeling that this is going to make the clearing process easier for me. I am ready to let go of stuff that was once important to me but is no longer relevant in my life.

I am really excited about our new house and look forward to living there. In a way, I'm in shock at the rapid pace at which this move is happening. I have wanted to move to the Northwest for a long time but didn't imagine it would happen so quickly as this. My wife and I began discussing it in earnest three months ago and we already have a location, a house and a time at which this will take place. I want our current house to sell quickly as well, so we can leave Santa Fe easily and resolutely when our new home becomes available to us. There is a possibility that the current owner of the house will rent it from us for a month or so to make her move easier, but it depends on when her new home becomes available as well. The moving date is uncertain but the closing date on our new home is June 23 or thereabouts.

I've had a notebook filled with my course work and journals from the one term that I studied at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology over 20 years ago. I look at it and want to decide whether to keep it or let it go and recycle the paper. It's a record of my thoughts and feelings during a time of big change in my life but I haven't looked at it in over twenty years. On the other hand, I just opened the pages and read a few of my notes to my mentor and found them interesting. I looked at a few of the exercises I did as part of the program and was surprised that they seemed relevant still. I thought I would look at some of the things I wrote and find it boring and dull, something I might easily relegate to the recycling bins, but I found what I read to be compelling and potentially useful, instead. I guess I will keep these two notebooks for a while longer and see if I actually read them and make use of the tools and reflections in them.

I have a lot of notes and papers that I can recycle as a way of clearing space in my life. I am curious to see what treasures I might discover in these reflections now that I know I still have them.