[Magdalen] My move

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I have my grandfather's mahogany desk, the dropfront bookcase my
grandmother remembers writing a letter to her own mother while her Papa
stood behind her and helped her make all the letters. There's also a formal
dining room set, a teak bed frame and some other stuff, and I have no idea
what will become of any of it when I die.

Picked up by strangers, I suppose.

Oh well, it's only stuff...

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As one who is a hoarder and sees sentimental value in just about
> everything, I have come a long long way on this move.  Of course I still
> have a shed full of boxes at Jim's along with a very large collection of
> framed pieces there, most of which have_great_ sentimental value, so I'm
> not out of the woods yet.  Living in my little house with NO storage space
> or buildings will  force a lot of hard decisions on me yet.  Its very
> different nature will dictate to a considerable degree what can stay and
> what must go.  I managed to get rid of much/most of the furniture to places
> that are not the dump and I hope I can find good homes for some of the
> older bigger framed things.  My kids don't want any of it.  In fact, my
> daughter returned pieces she had had for a few years (she moved today, too)
> and handed on her bedroom furniture to me.  Is that how it should work?????
>
> Anyway, in so many ways this is a fresh start.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
> On 8/8/2015 6:07 PM, Jon Egger wrote:
>
>> Marion,
>> When we move to our apartment in December last year we went from 3000sqf
>> to
>> 950sqf.  It was so good for me to get out of the place that had so many
>> memories of Plaintiff.  (Geez...ten years since my divorce!)
>>
>> Now I apologize for turning this thread into MEMEME, but I need to get
>> things off of my back. The move was easier for me because I don't hold
>> attachments to things like Dawn does. Stuff is stuff, and even what I have
>> is given away to close friends and such. (I gave my FDR collection to a
>> priest in the diocese who loves FDR as I do. She was delighted and it made
>> my day! I gave my daughter my Nemadji pottery collection, my Kilban cat
>> collection, and my Coptic hand cross.  She loved them too.) The things I
>> took amounted to 7 boxes.  Many things, like my collection of Dylan music,
>> books, and various ephemera, and so on I left for the people doing our
>> estate sale.  I literally felt free after so many years.
>>
>> Dawn, though, is a true hoarder.  Even with leaving back lots of her books
>> and other things, half of our living room is stacked with boxes...and her
>> bedroom is stacked with boxes 6 and a half feet high.  She says she'll get
>> to it, but she hasn't.  I may call her new church (Grace, in Liberty, Mo)
>> and see if they could get a group of people together and move the damn
>> boxes!  It's difficult for me not having room.  I can't even get outside
>> on
>> our patio to chill.  Lord knows I have enough tubing to get out there.
>> (She was a Navy brat and an Air Force wife and she never turns lights off
>> if they're not needed...I thinks this comes from never having a
>> gas/electric bill in the service.)
>>
>> Here endeth the rant.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Roger Stokes <
>> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/08/2015 01:07, Marion Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>> We are a select group!  You have my EVERY sympathy in return!  Lucky you
>>>> -- both a basement AND a garage!  But at the end of the day I am
>>>> delighted
>>>> with my new home, as I believe you are with yours!  I have no wish ever
>>>> to
>>>> move again this side of the veil.
>>>>
>>>> Likewise me.  When I retired last year I had to move since my house came
>>> with the post I had.  That was a *very* significant downsizing (by a
>>> factor
>>> of 5 in floor area) so it was a question of "keep what I need" and get
>>> rid
>>> of the rest.
>>>
>>> Roger
>>>
>>>
>