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Where do you want to grow old?
Aging Well | Last Active: Oct 15 9:41pm | Replies (267)Comment receiving replies
Two dear friends loved cooking. Over the years they introduced me to wonderful foods, prepared and presented beautifully. They opened a world of food to me.
I house sat for them while they traveled, and I found they had a simpler kitchen than any I had seen. Every pot and utensil served its purpose beautifully. There was a rather small selection of spices and seasonings, but they were of very fine quality. It was easy to cook because the shelves were not crowded with clutter. Everything you needed was obvious and at hand, and nothing more.
As I've aged and simplified my life, I've tried to make my shop, office and personal closet as simple and well chosen as their kitchen, but I have a long way to go.
Daniel Dennett writes about how as we age, our home becomes an extension of our mind, a sort of analog computer for solving the problems of living. Does an object help solve the problems of living, or does it create more problems?
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edsutton,
I couldn’t agree more.
Downsizing could not be more attractive to me. It always has been.
My husband does the cooking and there are more than a hundred spices in the kitchen. I cut out a recent cartoon from the New Yorker and taped it to the spice cabinet door. The cartoon was bottles of spices plotting to multiply and then take over.
It’s the getting rid of stuff, the questions about what to keep, how to move the rest and what to do with it that are weighing me down.