The “Thing Thing” (Clean your cabinets!)...
I recently moved my mom, aka “The Momster” to Albuquerque. As such things go, I couldn’t move most of her material possessions. Too much stuff. Too little time. Too many and higher priorities. And, as I spent hours digging through drawers, closets and cabinets…much of it appeared to not have been touched, much less used in years, if not decades. ALL of it coated in multiple layers of deep, deep brown nicotine (Hey, wasn’t this white when I sent it as an Xmas present? Ack. Ack.) So, what the hell to move??? – especially given Mom’s directive to “do the best you can.” Still, I tried…digging out old family jewelry…sifting through piles of paper… trying to get the things that would really (I thought) mean something to the Momster. All while breathing in decades...
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