2 Day 4 - a weekend break after one day

Yes,
Day one was particularly excruciating. So the weekend could not have come any sooner.
Why the break? Simply because I was not in range of a net connected computer. Not that I would have anything else to report in the this endeavour, which is that I dropped off a Toastmaster's award/trophy to one of the local members. It has been sitting in my office for 16 years and remained unscribed. A good opportunity to let something go that someone else can use.
Good to mention here that I gave away my prized Aloe, the one that flowered last year. I should post a picture, if I can find it. Next....

1. Box of Scouting memorabilia....
2. Jack's Iaiado swords.....
3. Clean up the potting stuff....

I'll be back...

Day 137

What is the sound I make as I consider the duration since the last post and the intention I made.
Baaaaaa....
So now what. I sit in my office feeling despair. I know that I can work with it, allow it and let it go. Each time is easier. Then I look at the tasks before me - all self made tasks - the office is a mess - piled with the detritus of so many past and current endeavours. Behind me, three totes full of family photos and one tote of my father's dcouments, all awaiting digitization. In front of me: a box of Boy Scout memorabilia; two boxes of books; a box of bat house parts; a chest full of once useful power cords and cables; a shelving unit with bags of dirt, an old Harmon Kardon cassette tape machine, a Technics Turntable, knick knacks; and .. and a box of old paints which I will use to paint cardboard for an upcoming cardboard boat race. There is one less can of paint as it had fallen over onto the shag carpet last Monday morning, alkyd paint - so the office still reeks of the varsol I used to clean it up. There is also three boxes of business archives - mostly the receipts I need to keep for any possible tax audit. The rolltop desk has a couple of drawers with more of the past - 8mm film canisters, post cards, masonite chips courtesy of the resident rat - who was exterminated a few months ago. There are filing cabinets - with 8 drawers in all - three I use all the time, one is empty - so four contain what - more of what I think I might want to look at again. Then the ceiling high built in shelves - textbooks; scouting magazines; cd cases; yearbooks; 100 or so vinyl albums; a box full of negatives (probably the source of one tote of family photos); my 2000+ slide collection from the 80's, diaries; more knick knacks.
Is this a control issue? Having this "stuff" and its inherent need to manage it seems gives me the illusion that I have something and something to do. For as long as I maintain this sate, I will always "have" the stuff and have something to do. The problem in this moment is that I want to rid myself of all of it, but I don't know here to start.
40 days - let's give this another try. 40 days to clean all the crap out. October 28. If I write about it, I write about it. If not, then not.