Paper Chase

Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Paper from conferences, old writing, and ephemera

Thursday: Workshops and conferences sure use up a lot of paper. I wonder if that will change as we inch towards using less of it? I am very glad to recycle a binful of folders, outlines, timetables, presenters' CVs, announcements, advertisements, etc., etc.

Friday: Happily for me and my decluttering, it turns out that a lot of my writing is (gasp) not worth saving. . . I'm really glad that Amesbury has unlimited paper recycling, because I just filled another bin!

Saturday: What an elegant and kind word, ephemera: it makes the most random pieces of paper trash sound like something special. And I suppose most of these bits and pieces are sort of special, since they seemed important enough to me to collect, hang on to, and move around. But, you know, the Internet is a pretty great filing cabinet. Most of the stuff I may need to refer to one day can be found just by searching online - and it will be up-to-date, too, which is more than I can say for all these stale scraps.

xo, LD