Things

Things

Remember that the most important things in life ... are not things.

(Donna Smallin, Clear the Clutter Find Happiness, p. 133)

Some of the most humble, simple things in life turn out to be the most satisfying.

(Alexandra Stoddard, The Art of the Possible, p. 13)

Dick Henthorn

24 Jun 2020

Things

Things

Things don't give us anything except what we bring to the enjoyment of them.

(Lin Yutang in The Art of the Possible by Alexandra Stoddard, p. 82)

Dick Henthorn

10 June 2020

Clarity

Photo by: Mr. Dickie

Doctor's Hospital, Lanham, MD

Every day the path to your own spirituality starts with clarifying who you are and what you want. Not just things ─ things are easy. I mean the stuff that really matters. Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give. What kind of person do you really want to be?
(Oprah Winfrey, Words That Matter, The Editors of The Oprah Magazine, p. 121)
20 January 2016

Clearing Your House of Clutter

Do not do anything that you can persuade someone else to do. Take the time to train others to organize your things the way you like them, even if it means allowing a few minor slip-ups to happen while they get up to speed. If you can afford it hire extra help.

Always ask yourself, whenever you buy a new piece of clothing, appliance, or other type of thing how much time this purchase will take to maintain.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 106-7)
18 July 2015

Making Peace With Things

If you want to make peace with the things in your life, you must first understand and make peace with yourself. There is no other way.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, Introduction, p. xiv)
22 March 2015

Things

Things are brought in, either by you or by someone else. If you're an adult, you have a legal right to choose what things you bring or allow into your space. Not all of us, however choose to exercise this right.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 23)
2 March 2015

Be On Guard

Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.
(Luke 12:15) in Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 44, by The Christophers)

Letting go of what I do not truly need - whether it be old thoughts, things, or behaviors - makes room for new growth in my life.
(Hope For Today, 20 April)
5 January 2015

Black Friday

So, it is vanity to seek material wealth that cannot last and to place your trust in it. It is also vanity to seek recognition and status. It is vanity to chase after what the world says you should want and to long for things you should not have, things that you will pay a high price for later on if you get them.
(Thomas 'a Kempis, The Imitation Of Christ, Book 1, Chapter 1)
28 November 2014

Things

Things

Things are about power.

Things are about belonging.

Things are about identity

Things are about perfection.

(Extracted from 

Making Peace with the Things in Your Life, 

by 

Cindy Glovinsky, p. 37)

19 November 2014

Question Everything

When attempting to learn how to deal with the things in your life 

or 

the things happening in your life.

"Question Everything"

(after Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 191)
13 September 2014

Get It While You Can

For some people, buying certain things has become a little too easy, resulting in debts and/or clutter. This is not just a problem of the affluent, as even the impoverished may go overboard at yard sales and thrift shops.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 26-27)

Giving yourself ... permission to try out new experiences, to take risks and, most importantly, to do the things which you feel are significant, regardless of how others view them, will give you more and more meaning in your everyday life.
(Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, The Sky's The Limit, p. 324)
29 April 2014

My Things

... one thing is certain: the people who get the most fun out of their belongings are not necessarily the people with the most Things.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 79)
14 February 2014

Favorite Things

Putting off getting rid of things because your haven't found the right person or organization to which to give them can hold you in bondage for years.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 66)
11 February 2014

Family Heirlooms

Are you keeping a lot of family heirlooms in order to pass them on to your descendants? How do you and your potential heirs feel about these things?
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 39)
3 February 2014

Clutter

... one of the most common escapes from dealing with clutter is obsessive analysis of the problem itself. While you must figure out what's going to make progress with things, when you make analysis an end in itself, substituting thought for action, it becomes self-defeating.
(Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace With The Things In Your Life, p. 53)
2 February 2014

All Things Bright And Beautiful

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

And all things wise and wonderful;

The Lord God made them all.

(Cecil Frances Alexander (1819-1895))

10 Augus 2013

Things

How long are you going to hold on to the things that are not working in your best interests?
Things that are not fulfilling?
Things that are no longer productive?
(Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 3 October)

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I noticed this week that the number of posts to my four Google blogs passed the 5,000 milestone.

Mr. Dickie

6 October 2012

Wanting Things

Are you still wanting things that will be forgotten when they go out of style?  (Steve Case, Everything Counts, 12 November) 17 November 2011

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Yesterday Cyndi and I went to Bethesda to visit her storage bin.  We dropped off her bike and a box of items and picked up some winter shoes and clothing.

As part of my project to remove clutter from the house we stopped at the thrift store to make a donation. We dropped off twelve cartons of VCR and cassette tapes I'd recorded over time.  I considered about putting the boxes in Cyndi's storage.  When I came to grips with the fact that this would just put those boxes "out of sight and out of mind" I realized it was time to eliminate those boxes from our lives.

Cyndi and I ate lunch at La Madeleline on Old Georgetown Road in Bethesda.  This was the first time I'd been to this place.  The Washington, DC restaurant used to supply food for WAMU-FM during the fund raising campaigns.  Two of Cyndi's girl friends arrived after we finished eating.  I moved next door to the Caribou coffee shop where I ate a couple of chocolate cookies while I read a book about Google Chrome in have checked out of the library.

In the evening I watched the two and a half hour Wednesday night, streaming video show from the Loveless Cafe in Nashville, TN on Music City Roots.  The show was a tribute to Tom T. Hall.  His wife, Dixie, was also there.  The hosts were Eric Brace and Peter Cooper.  There were many other performers on the stage.  I didn't catch the names of all of them.  The ones I wrote down were: Buddy Miller, Gary Bennett, Lloyd Green, Matraca Berg, Duane Eddy, Tommy Womack, Fayssoux Starling McLean (married at one time to John Starling of the Bluegrass band, Seldom Scene).  One song that made me laugh was, "Ain't He A Big Pig?"  Tom T. sang several songs at the end of the program.  He did a great job on "Old Dogs and Children and Watermelon Wine."  This time I was able to post a clickable link to the performance on my Facebook wall.  I wonder if any of my Facebook friends took advantage of it.  During the show I kept thinking about how much more interesting this program is than the Grand Ole Opry shows.

Mr. Dickie

17 November 2011

Things

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.  (The Talmud, in Believing In Myself by Larsen and Hegarty, 14 June)

Think things through.  (after Selwyn Hughes, Every Day Light, Day 235)

One of the most tragic sights in life is a man who has learned nothing from the years.  (William Barclay, The Letter To Titus, p.283)  19 September 2011