A few words before bed...

I'm up so late because I spent the evening with my sister and her boyfriend - they cooked me dinner and then we watched A Dangerous Method, one of the latest movies by David Cronenberg.  It's the one about a female patient of Carl Jung who also eventually became a revered psychoanalyst, before WWI.  It was fantastic, but wasted a little bit on me because I dozed off a couple times and lost a few seconds here and there.  I just need to catch up on sleep, there was nothing wrong with the story.  I'd like to watch it again so I catch all the dialogue and fully process everything.

I'm away from where I usually write my blog so I can't insert some clever pictures or document my home improvement project.  I haven't been able to do it in a few days.  After I wrote my entry for yesterday I thought that my advice was too pithy.  The truth is when I get back to what I was doing I plan to move into the more difficult stage of my mess management, and I've been talking around it.  A huge reason I'm doing all of this is because my husband died last year, and I need to get down to finding some new homes for his huge collection of books and some other possessions, but mostly books.  I have a hard time conveying to anyone the monumental task this is, not just emotionally, but the sheer amount of material there is to deal with.  Part of me wants to take another year to manage it all, but I'm coming to terms with the fact that in order to deal with his passing I'm going to have to face parting with some of his things.  He was an artist, a scholar and a writer, and I've made arrangements with a local art college to take a large amount of his books.  This way I know that students will continue to learn from them, and they'll be a place that prizes them.  It's hard to look at his things as just stuff.  My husband tried to make it seem like his things weren't especially important, but he collected them lovingly over years' time and they helped him make his own contributions to art and writing.

I think the best way for me to handle this task is to involve friends to work alongside me.  It might make the job go faster and it will be good to have their support.  I look at a lot of the organizing work I've done so far  as groundwork for the toil ahead of me.