Thinking about what matters

Some of you who started following this blog as a writer's journal may be wondering what the heck I am doing lately, blogging so much about decluttering and simplifying, but I suspect that most readers either see or trust in an underlying connection. Letting go of physical stuff is also a metaphor for letting go of other baggage: mental, emotional, psychological. It can be a metaphor for revising, deleting. It's also about accepting that certain plans haven't worked out, that some goals will have to change.

I'm not yet ready to talk about exactly how this is playing out in my writing life, mostly because new plans and goals are still tentative, still being figured out. But in some reading I was doing last night, I came across these lines which especially spoke to me:
"I don't need to fill my life with more stuff. I need to think about what matters to me."
--from Traveling on Grace Street, by Jeff Blake