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Your evening longread: 'I wanted to get rid of all of my possessions'
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
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Ann Patchett writes about deciding to clear as much of her possessions as possible as a way of preparing for her death – even though her death was in no way imminent.
(The New Yorker, approx 26 mins reading time)
This was the practice: I was starting to get rid of my possessions, at least the useless ones, because possessions stood between me and death. They didn’t protect me from death, but they created a barrier in my understanding, like layers of bubble wrap, so that instead of thinking about what was coming and the beauty that was here now I was thinking about the piles of shiny trinkets I’d accumulated. I had begun the journey of digging out.
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