I’ve been planning to tackle cleaning out our garage for weeks as I thought what analog thing I could do to get away from the computer.
After some advice and encouragement from my dad about how to tackle it, I started whittling on it yesterday. And then again today.
I’ve written one of my pillar posts here about eating the elephant but I simply got overwhelmed and forgot I could take it piece by piece.
Dad mentioned shelves and tubes. Which felt obvious but helped unlocked the overwhelm for me.
Then I just stared at it. And finally saw a plan come together.
The garage (no pics to avoid shame for the blameless) is such a good analogy for the junk in my/our heart:
- Place I throw stuff I don’t want to think about or have time for
- Which ends up being the shit we keep around that nags at us, gets in the way or we end up hauling around from place to place
- It seems like a big overwhelming project — like that stuff from your past that you just avoid or ignore — and it’s mostly in the dark place
- Once a year it deserves a good reset and purging. Throw away the trash and old shit. Organized the good and keepsakes or tools for another day.
All of this symbolic of the work I’ve been doing in my heart the last couple of years.
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