caveat: even in writing, it's difficult to decide what can remain and what will be relegated to the backspace button
Someone recently said to me that the first forty years of your life you spend collecting things and the next forty years of your life, you spend giving it all away. And that's how it's been for me, although I've lagged maybe a decade behind.
Is it living in a dreamworld to believe there is an abundance of beauty and beautiful things in this world? To listen to the radio or read any news outlet, one would be hard pressed to imagine there is anything lovely to dream about. But look around, it is there, always there, waiting to be noticed.
Sometimes, lately, I think if instead of collecting or harvesting or hoarding, or even making things for someone to buy, what if instead, we created and curated and tended what is already around us, without price tags, without "exclusive" or "limited time" offers? Lives could change. When did generosity become a radical idea?
Wouldn't it be incredible to see everyone, regardless of their ability to afford it, living in beauty, bounty, surrounded by lush gardens, picking fruit from lovingly tended trees? But what would you or I have to give up to make this happen? What things would we keep and what would we give away?
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