Aschenbros Blog

I've been throwing things away recently. Books, chairs, clothes, knick knacks. Poof, gone. If you hadn't noticed, I don't throw anything away. Never know when you'll need a ... geez and there one is. The times I've saved myself by having just the right X for the Y job, even if it is years later, still gratifying to know keeping it all paid off.

Ok, so I haven't been throwing that much out. My girlfriend has gone to Wales to get smart and do stuff with her life, so I've been watching her sort and hauling stuff down stairs. Inspirational and painful to watch at the same time.

I guess mostly inspirational, cause when it came time to do something with my rickety but beloved faux leather and wood pre-historic lazy boy... I pulled the trigger and put her down. It was tough. Could have cobbled something together, given her a few more years. Or one. But there comes a time when the cycle of life must continue and the comfy chair (actually it never was that comfy) must return from whence it came: the oak tree, the pleather fields and the random metal and stuffing bushes of the Dakotas.

But the hardest thing was throwing away books. I tried so hard to find them a home. One place didn't exist anymore, two more said no. if it wasn't for being auto-less and having a broken collarbone, I'd have lugged them around for years to come. But they were in German and deserving of their fate in that they were the real fillers of my girlfriend's book ensemble (though now I'll never know the childhood frolics of Willie Brandt). I balanced the two sacks on my handle bars and biked to one last hope... but no, no used books here. With a heavy heart I returned home and flung them unceremoniously in the paper recycling bin. 

I'm still depressed, even now... almost an hour later, after schmalzbrot and some cereal and yogurt.

But I'll survive, the cycle continues and now I'm prepared to face any situations requiring a headlamp, personalized stationary with footprints, childrens stories in German on cassette or even an empty plastic box... about yea big, nice lid, sturdy...