Monthly Archives: October, 2013

Final Thoughts on Garage Sales…for now

Garage sales can take you through a long, sometimes excruciating journey of self discovery. You meet a lot of nice people, and some not so nice people who only want to spend a quarter on your personal possessions. You see your old self in those who are still collecting and you hope they will have …

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Hanging On Just a Little Bit Longer

Still, there are those last few things that haven’t made it to the “sell” pile yet. I don’t want to overanalyze, but part of this rebirthing process is understanding how you got to where you are and why you don’t want to go back where you just came from. Having said that, here are a …

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Other baggage

Then there are the things I feel mostly detatched from: Trek Navigator Bike I got this bike four years ago for my birthday. It cost more than any other birthday present I had ever bought myself. I felt entitled. I had a desire to get back to that time in my twenties when I rode …

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The Emotional Side of Garage Sales

For the last five Saturdays we have had a garage sale from our 10×20 storage shed. Four of those Saturdays it rained. Last Saturday it was beautiful. By then we had sold most of the big stuff. So we were getting $1-2 for what was left…everything except for the few “good” items that remained. Still, …

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Beach Art

<a We went to the beach just after a storm and here are some of the things we saw: Twisted Kelp Muscle Shell Muscle Shell Posing on a Rock Kelp Trees Twisty Seagrass Heart Shell Heart Shell in a Grass Frame Group Photo Follow me if you wanna see more!

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