Pairing down your life can be liberating. For example, I'm trying to visualize some open space in the yard once the bamboo is gone. Space that doesn't need to be planted, watered, weeded, mulched, staked, etc. etc.
We'll see. Nature abhors a vacuum, and so do most people. I guess that's why we fill our lives with useless things we don't need, and enough useful things to last several lifetimes. Dishes, teapots and knives come to mind. Have you ever been to one of those antique malls? Stuffed to the rafters with the contents of houses just like ours. Fun to look around, but rather oppressive and overwhelming poking through dead people's things.
Empty closets are easy on the eye, and so is empty real estate on this crowded planet. With the new proposed zoning in Seattle, 3 or 4 tall skinny houses could be built on our single family lot. Or even a small apartment-condo complex. No hedge, no grass, no weeds, no flowers, no bees, no trees. A postage stamp lawn, a couple of ornamental shrubs and crows-- always crows.
We have so much family history and work invested in this house, and it would be hard to leave the yard where Amanda played when she was Maya's age. On the other hand, maybe someday a kitchen bigger than a sailboat galley? A view other than power lines and other people's houses? Well, a person can always dream. In the meantime, life goes on and garden chores pile up. We're headed into another scorching dry week.
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