Comments on: 03/08/2018 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7032 Tue, 20 May 2025 03:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SomeOldGuy http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7032&cpage=1#comment-296160 SomeOldGuy Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:57:30 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7032#comment-296160 I'm 72 years old. I'm in the process of getting rid of everything. Family stuff is going to family now. Stuff I haven't used in years is going to secondhand stores. Simplifying makes you free. I’m 72 years old. I’m in the process of getting rid of everything. Family stuff is going to family now. Stuff I haven’t used in years is going to secondhand stores. Simplifying makes you free.

]]> By: Peter Rogan http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7032&cpage=1#comment-296159 Peter Rogan Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:49:11 +0000 http://brunostrip.com/wp/?p=7032#comment-296159 Socrates said that the wise man puts no value on material things, and is ready to part with them when necessary. Basho, the poet, also had a perspective: Since my house burned down I now own a better view Of the rising moon. That said... nothing makes you more acutely aware of what things mean to us than a good-sized disaster. It's hard to be grateful when you realize how much work you're going to have to put in to have your creature comforts back again. Socrates said that the wise man puts no value on material things, and is ready to part with them when necessary. Basho, the poet, also had a perspective:

Since my house burned down
I now own a better view
Of the rising moon.

That said… nothing makes you more acutely aware of what things mean to us than a good-sized disaster. It’s hard to be grateful when you realize how much work you’re going to have to put in to have your creature comforts back again.

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