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3 years ago
Organizing is Fun and memorable!
So last weekend i got on a kick i organized my entire i tunes library, then it all went so very haywire. I alphabetized my DVD’s and got chills of excitement down my spine, i then turned to the books…ooooo look at me go. Then it hit me i have stuff in the attic. Rummaging through boxes of old stuff, throwing aways things from my past, reconnecting with others. It was all so enjoyable.
I found the box of journals, half finished monuments of my past, literally 20 of them ranging from the time i was 10 to present each one representing my love of odd and quirky journal books. Every time i found a new one i would buy it and start writing in it. I was enjoying myself immensely.
as i made my way through the stuff i uncovered three totes of forgotten tomes. Encased in these rubbermaid safes of the past were roughly two thousand peices of ink colored paper stories of wonderful, fascinating, and amazing people and things. I popped open the first case and drew in a deep long breath, instantly images came coursing through my mind like an stampede. Days spent in musty basement stores, warm sunny days where the morals, hopes and dreams i hold so dear were first forged. My comic book collection called to me for the first time in well over five years of being parted from them. Its amazing how something as simple as a smell can invoke such strong feelings and memories. My mind snapped back to the present and i was appalled that these wonderful things were still up in the attic alone and neglected. With great risk and a slightly pulled thigh and calf muscle i wrestled the bulky 100 plus pound boxes down the impossibly tiny ladder leading to the attic and placed them in my room.
I spent the next few days taking them out and putting them back into alphabetic and chronologic order. Occasionaly i was surprised with an issue i didnt know i had, or one i fondly remembered and couldnt help but pull it out from its plastic protection and flip through its colorful pages. Like little books of my past as i flipped through memories i fell in love all over again. I look forward to being able to add new ones to my collection and to catch up on ones i missed over the years.
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