What a heartwarming mother-daughter bonding story. Please consider sending Maya over to my house. I need to declutter my closet and endless bookshelves, except of course for keeping our cherished copy of, "Locker Room Talk"!
Ah, so sweet, your final words in which my book remains while its neighbors might say goodbye. Maya has an incredible touch with precisely the tasks that I will do anything to avoid so it's a good combo. So, we've done closet and bookshelves. I know she'll come up with something else soon. Can't wait!
I love this essay. I have been going through things, too, in preparation for a move. I gave two boxes and seven bags of books to a community Christmas store that has a huge and well visited book section. I was happy to know the books will find homes. Always a joy to read your essays, Melissa!
I need a human tornado like Maya to sort through endless boxes of China belonging to my sister Mary. Her love for tea houses and all things porcelain has turned the basement of the family home into her storage space.
Can you hire her out? She can probably turn the desire to simplify into a lucrative business.
I agree with you -- her remarkable skill and patience while all of this is going on would be worth quite a bit in our surplus society. Her employment, as you'd well appreciate, rests with her alone. Mom long ago left that scene.
What a heartwarming mother-daughter bonding story. Please consider sending Maya over to my house. I need to declutter my closet and endless bookshelves, except of course for keeping our cherished copy of, "Locker Room Talk"!
Ah, so sweet, your final words in which my book remains while its neighbors might say goodbye. Maya has an incredible touch with precisely the tasks that I will do anything to avoid so it's a good combo. So, we've done closet and bookshelves. I know she'll come up with something else soon. Can't wait!
I love this essay. I have been going through things, too, in preparation for a move. I gave two boxes and seven bags of books to a community Christmas store that has a huge and well visited book section. I was happy to know the books will find homes. Always a joy to read your essays, Melissa!
thanks, Cathy, for sharing your book sorting/donating experience. It makes me happy to know my essays bring you joy!!
I need a human tornado like Maya to sort through endless boxes of China belonging to my sister Mary. Her love for tea houses and all things porcelain has turned the basement of the family home into her storage space.
Can you hire her out? She can probably turn the desire to simplify into a lucrative business.
I agree with you -- her remarkable skill and patience while all of this is going on would be worth quite a bit in our surplus society. Her employment, as you'd well appreciate, rests with her alone. Mom long ago left that scene.
Love it! Love the bond between Maya and you! Love the way your bookshelf looks now! Love the way you tell the story!