Things are Moving

Seems kind of minor in the grand scheme of things, but I feel good that I have got an old project gathering dust for years finally under control. I have finally got access to two hard drives that have been sitting around in one place or another for years now. It turns out that one, from an old micron, was completely erased - the files either completely lost or practically inaccessible. The other, from a destroyed laptop, was fine. I got what I needed from it.

Again, you might look at this as insignificant, but I find that keeping all of your possessions in order, all of them, contributes to you feeling in order in general. The fact that, in modern times, we have so many possessions - molecular and electronic - makes this very, very difficult. My sense is that it is worth the effort. We belong to our possessions more than we think we do. Some part of us knows everything we do, everything we decide and everything we own, and if any of those things is unresolved, disordered or neglected, it will have an effect on us. I make no claims as to understanding how this attachment works; I simply observe it to be true.

So, a small victory today. I have a little bit of housekeeping to do with the files I've extracted, but the task is mostly done.