Comments on: Excavations https://livingwithscleroderma.com/excavations/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Evelyn Herwitz https://livingwithscleroderma.com/excavations/#comment-53425 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:51:39 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3784#comment-53425 In reply to Pat Bizzell.

Thanks, Pat. I’d love to read it when you’re through!

]]> By: Pat Bizzell https://livingwithscleroderma.com/excavations/#comment-53356 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:24:24 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=3784#comment-53356 You really made me think with your comment that the way to preserve what you care about is to write about it. I’m wondering how to apply that strategy at my home. I have actually been a demon recycler and Salvation Army donor over the years, but it still seems like there’s way too much stuff in my house. Some of it is technically my daughters’ and some of it is my husband’s, but a large portion of the clutter for which I’m responsible comprises books. Turns out that out-dated professional publications have virtually no use anywhere. They are not even easily recyclable. Libraries don’t want them, and no one would read them for pleasure! I once persuaded the used textbook buyer who comes by my office periodically to take several boxes of them, but he confided that he would only sell them by the pound to be pulped. I supposed I will have to downsize my home library radically in a few years, but maybe before that happens, I should pull out a few key titles and write an autobiography based on what I was doing when I read each book . . . it might work.

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