Stuff weighs us down
I started on one track in my last post and wound up somewhere else. Somewhere else important. Somewhere else that is driving my reason why. Two posts ago, I talked about our attempts to minimize our lifestyle in order to maximize our lives. Because, really, stuff weighs us down. I remember many years ago when we went to Miami, Florida, on a job assignment. We left everything inside our house for a caretaker to watch over while we put everything we could fit inside our Dodge Grand Caravan. I wish I had a picture! I put my kitchen appliances and a few toys along with clothing in with our kids. We removed one of the captains chairs and moved the bench seat from the back to the middle row and the other captain chair into the back in order to maximize the amount of space we had for our stuff. Our three kids sat on the bench seat, buckled into the three seat belts, while our dog found just enough space on the floor between their backpacks. Sh...