"We all want some portion of our lives to "live beyond its midnight," yet selectivity is the only way to keep from amassing garbage. The labor of choosing what to keep and what to throw away is fundamental to creating anything of value. A diarist who fails to choose and instead tries to record everything on the page soon resembles the woman who saves everything in her house; when everything is valuable, nothing in particular is of worth."
Sunday, October 30, 2005
Throwing Things Away
From "Counting on Kindness" by Wendy Lustbader -
