if you get lucky, it may come around again

call it fall cleaning....stoop sale day...the weather was right....but to sell stuff is to let go...of clothes and books and it's an end...and today was an end to my relationship with 2 bob dylan books, some shakers and tambourines and clothes.....and it's weird when people negotiate with you over a book that changed your life a decade ago...but nothing is sacred anymore....we used to hold on to old recordings of ourselves but now all our "files" are on a laptop and we can't touch the tape and it's not the same.....but we didn't sell our vinyl or my guitars so all is not lost....we sold a dresser and a chair that I carried to the new owner's house bc the last thing I wanted to do was to take it back upstairs....there's something cathartic about getting rid of all of your stuff...because I'm not sure what were holding onto things for....it's true....less is more....and it's good to let go of the past.....and move on... and live in the present and think about the future.....because we can't go back to the way it was.....not a photo or a jacket or a book or a tie will bring back the past....it's nice to remember....but old things collect dust.....and take up space....and we need space to think and to play and to run free.....

wherever you are is where you're suppose to be so stay there and be committed to the moment....don't think about the near or far future because nothing's guaranteed and the better you are in this moment the better you'll be in life (and the afterlife according to the book I'm reading, many lives many masters) .....you can't change what just occurred tonight or this week or last week or whenever....you can only change how you act in this present moment.... or the rest of the night...or the next hour....or the next 20 minutes....this is all you can change....and even the future is somewhat predetermined....fate is as important as hard word so relax....and let things happen....I'm not saying don't be driven...bc we know you are....you have to be in order to succeed and love what you do in this world...and we know you wouldn't want it any other way...but that's not necessarily what was meant to happen to you...and it might not happen that way for you....you don't know what life has in store for you...so take a seat....don't sit back...because you're in for a ride of a lifetime..and it may come around again if you get lucky.......