Stepping Back in Time Via Email

My father's passing (and the cleaning of my father's house) left a lasting impression on me as to the importance of getting a handle on stuff.

Thank goodness, my parents had (ironically) stuffed away in their bookcase Marie Kondo's book 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up." This book has not left my side for the past week.

 

 

 

So far, my clothes and my books are well in hand. Today I've cleaned up my desktop and my computer files, and I'm starting on my email.

 

Now, you think you've got physical clutter? Ever looked at the 'sent' folder of your email?

 

Don't.

 

Not unless you want a monster project on your hands. Or you like time travel.

 

I have emails back to the beginning of email time (approximately the year 2006 for this emailbox).

 

And they're telling me a very intriguing, nearly forgotten story.

 

Lots of people and ideas (and even articles and stories) in there.

 

Between that and the regular emailbox, I think I've got about sixteen days of work to do here.

 

 

In the meantime, while I purge, I'm going to keep my brain alive with Doestoyevsky's "The Double", which I found sitting lonely on my desktop, waiting to be read. It's a longer story about madness, so I'll just take my time over it on my lunchbreaks. To balance out the madness of my own life at the moment.