Just a silly meme I came across on social media.  But it made me think. It reminds me of what I told everyone when I was leaving my career and selling my farm.  "I want to do more and have less."   The past 7 years have indeed been that way and I still feel that way.  Yet as I sat here with moving boxes and packing paper jumbled all around me and I read the quote above I had a twinge that asked if I had lost this value?  If I feel that way, why are there so many boxes of schtuff to pack?  Maybe I am hedging my bets... trying to both have adventures and hold onto things.  Maybe I'm a poser and only talk the talk.  Or maybe it isn't a black/white thing.  Maybe one doesn't have to give up everything to have adventures.... maybe as long as adventures are not hindered or canceled by having to care or pay for things it's okay.  A balance.  Because one of the things that I find is that as I get older, you have so many stories and adventures packed in your head that sometimes it takes a tickle to open a story and pull it out to enjoy the memory again.  And sometimes the catalyst is an object.  So I will continue to pack my objects - paintings, pottery, books and furniture - and recognize that each of them is like a book of stories waiting to be opened and enjoyed again.