And then we moved into what is now our “forever” – or as close to forever as anything really is – home, and discovered that we still had way too much stuff. And we keep accumulating things, despite our best efforts.
So I am taking advantage of this summer to try to keep what “sparks joy” (or at least not “provokes ennui”) and get rid of the rest. (This concept is from Marie Kondo’s book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.) Yesterday, I bought new workout clothes and I’m going to go through some of the 25+ year old t-shirts that I have prided myself on still being able to fit into – so what if you can see through them – and toss things out. No, they’re not going to become rags. We have rags. If you have a t-shirt that you say is going to be a rag, sooner or later, it’s going to wind up on your back when you’re in a hurry. OUT.
Also going through costume jewelry. Some things I may designate as potential props for studio recitals, future shows, etc., and they will go upstairs, in our prop/costume/workout space.
Of course, this means that I need to organize my upstairs prop/costume/workout space and see what it is I don’t need up there.
I suspect that this is going to be harder than I expected.
How does this affect me musically, since that’s supposed to be the point of this blog?
I’m also trying to re-do my studio vocalise sheets and toss out the vocalises that I have never used, which just filled space on the page when I first created them for a workshop 10+ years ago.
I have a project in mind for a poster paper to present at NATS in June 2018, and I figure the less clutter I have at hand, the less clutter I have in mind. (The due date for that is December 1, 2017, so I have a bit of time to organize this.)
If I have less stuff taking up space in my place, I will have less stuff taking up space in my mind. And hopefully, that will spark joy.
And I didn’t even have to buy the book to get this insight. Huh.