Posted by Daniel Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:18:07 GMT

Shoes vs. Space: I’m reduced to a grand total of two drawers for all my clothing. Talk about embracing constraints.[This is a constraint we’ve been happily embracing over the last couple of years. We moved to our house in a rush and took no time to edit our junk. And we both had too much. Way too much. And while the start was painful, with each load of clothes dropped at the clothing banks, with each box of paperwork sorted, filed and/or tossed, with each item from former lives that no longer makes sense in our new lives we feel lighter and more free, and in the end far less constrained. Recently I started getting rid of old pro audio gear. I’m not a pro musician. Not anymore. It took a long time to give that away, an acceptance that it’s not my path (who knows what the future will bring?). Either way, the stuff could go. So amps, synths, boards, effects, DAT decks, monitors, and even some instruments have been set loose in one fashion or another. There’s more to go in the pairing down process, but it keeps getting better and better in the following way. As you remove stuff, you remove the need to care for and store stuff. At some point you can remove the furniture and fixtures needed to hold stuff so that there’s even more space than you thought. And space provides room for thoughts, dreams, and actions. Can get enough of those.

Here’s my goal: To own nothing that I don’t find beautiful and love. At this point, to the limits of function, I’d rather not have, than to have something that doesn’t please me in its function or aesthetics.

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