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December 12, 2005
Letting go 
Last night, I dreamt I was moving out of my dorm room. You know, my dorm room for library school, the thing I did online. I had so much crap in that room it was incredible. It was me, my dad, my mom, my sweetie, and others, going through all my stuff.
My father would look at me, exasperated, and say, Vicki, why do you have all this crap? How many sets of dishes do you need?
And all through the dream, we were going through stuff. Friends from school would drop by, and would be amazed at how well I did in school in spite of all the stuff I had stuffed in my dorm room.
They worked by my side, all day long. All my stuff, exposed to the air.
I woke up and all I wanted to do was clean. I filled a grocery bad with paper, a filing box with records (probably about 200), a giant plastic bag with clothes.
My dad doesn't make appearances in dreams all that often, so I expect this is important. I need to pare down. I've wanted to. He's willing to help.
Posted at December 12, 2005