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Taylor: New year calls for travelling light

Column by Jim Taylor
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I woke up in someone else91裸聊视频檚 bed the other morning. The alarm was beeping. I tried to whack the snooze button, but the alarm wasn91裸聊视频檛 where it should be.

I realized I was also sharing the bed with a large St. Bernard-cross dog. And two cats.

Then I remembered. I was at my daughter91裸聊视频檚 house, watching over her house, her pets, her plants, and her son, while she and my granddaughter were driving to California, where my granddaughter plans to start her new life, which involves 91裸聊视频 well, you don91裸聊视频檛 need all the details.

My point is, I was in an unfamiliar setting. Where I didn91裸聊视频檛 know where to find my regular breakfast cereal, which I need to keep myself regular 91裸聊视频 What? Too many details again?.

But it91裸聊视频檚 the details that make the difference. As the saying goes, 91裸聊视频淭he devil is in the details.91裸聊视频 A bed is a bed; a house is a house. But doing without All-Bran is a crisis.

In any kind of new life, a multitude of details, old and new, will keep tripping you up.

This 91裸聊视频渘ew year91裸聊视频 is a perfect example. You turn over a sheet on your wall calendar. It91裸聊视频檚 blessedly blank. But you still have last year91裸聊视频檚 commitments to fulfil. And last year91裸聊视频檚 credit card charges to pay.

The baggage of life tags along, like it or not.

I fell in love last year. With someone who lives and works a thousand miles away. Our relationship is sometimes torrid, sometimes tentative. Because we both drag a lifetime of baggage with us 91裸聊视频 family, friends, responsibilities, property91裸聊视频

Travelling light is not easy.

Starting anything new91裸聊视频攚hether a year or a relationship 91裸聊视频 requires deliberately letting go of some things. For example, I didn91裸聊视频檛 attempt to put up all of my wife Joan91裸聊视频檚 decorations this last Christmas. She loved turning our home into something festive, with candles and streamers and embroidered Christmas stockings and little gray mice on the mantlepiece dancing around a music-box Christmas-tree that tinkles Jingle Bells.

But the house doesn91裸聊视频檛 feel festive with just me in it. Me, and my cat. Who delights in knocking brightly coloured glass balls onto the floor.

I feel like the ghost of Christmas past as I sweep the debris into a dustpan.

91裸聊视频楾was ever thus. Before I got married, my family didn91裸聊视频檛 decorate the Christmas tree until Christmas Eve. We didn91裸聊视频檛 take down our decorations until Twelfth Night, January 6. I burned the tree goodbye in our backyard.

I had to let go of some of those traditions when I married Joan. We needed to create new traditions together. You can91裸聊视频檛 move on, tethered to yesterday91裸聊视频檚 anchors.

Maybe New Year91裸聊视频檚 is a good time for self-examination. To identify some of those anchors. 91裸聊视频淪tuff91裸聊视频 we91裸聊视频檝e accumulated. Assumptions we91裸聊视频檝e taken for granted.

Letting go means taking the risk of letting go of the wrong things. Like a friendship. A favourite activity. A vocation. Getting rid of a mountain while keeping a molehill.

The arrival of a new calendar year should remind us that every year 91裸聊视频 indeed, every day, every hour 91裸聊视频 is the start of something new. We cannot know what lies ahead, good or bad. The best we can do is travel light.

Jim Taylor lives in Lake Country: rewrite@shaw.ca





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