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Hopalong:

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I'd like this thread to be on any related topic that anybody feels like commenting on, such as (but it's a biiiiiiig topic):

Clutter
Consuming
Meaning of Spending
Shopping
Our Relationship to the Earth
Do We Need Lawns
What is Enough?
Do We Own Our Stuff?
Does Our Stuff Own Us?
Our Precious Time

You get my drift...anything like that and wherever we take it!

xo
Hops

Hopalong:
And my first little bit is a Thanksgiving blessing that visited me:

I had a burst of simplicity tonight and cleaned up my room. Not the paperwork, but everything else, and even the paperwork is corralled in a portable bin. Ready for some out-of-the-house coffeehouse paperwork this week!

Silly
ordinary
but to me
a great moment

love
Hops

axa:
Well Done hops,

As we all know how we do it is by doing it!!!!!!!!

Axa

Lupita:
Do we own our stuff?

Relatively.

We do not take anything when we die. The worms will eat us and the "stuff" will stay here.

Like a football player that works all his life for that and brakes his knee and cannot paly anymore. What is left to him?

I guess we need basics and after that, everything is luxory. After the basics everything is a "plus".

To stop to smell the roses, metaphorically. What a wonderful sensation after a hard day of work, long day, to go to bed and feel my tempurpedic mattress. It is wonderful.

What a wonderful sensation to finally learn a dance step that has been practiced a lot.

What a nice feeling when I know that I post and I will have answers, wether I like the answeres or not, but the fact that somebody is answering, that there is another human being at the other side of this computer trying to communicate with me.

Thank you for this thread Hopalong.

Lupita:
One of the simplicity things that I am learning to treasure and appreciate is:

Those boring days when nothing happens.

I love them, nothing happens, means, nothing bad happened, just peace and rest.

Like today. I love the day of today Friday. Just sitting in my apartment, alone, with my lap top, posting and enjoying a day when nothing happens.

The news say that mall were open at 4:00 o'clock AM and were packed and crowded.

I do not have a single cent to go shopping, but I feel so peaceful, so SIMPLE.

I love it.

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