28/05/2025
Interesting read.
Recently Iāve been reading The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, which is a process of decluttering or ādƶstƤdningā designed to simplify your life and reduce the burden on loved ones after you pass away. One of the famous quotes from Margareta: āThe space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the pastā.
After her friendās father died, leaving his loved ones to sort through his things, Ann Patchett decided it was time to get rid of some of her own belongings. āThe closer I got to the places where I slept and worked, the more complicated my choices became. The sandwich-size ziplock of my grandmotherās costume jewelry nearly sank me, all those missing beads and broken clasps,ā she writes. Later, Patchett packs away a dozen etched crystal champagne flutes, collected during her 30s and long abandoned on the top shelf of a kitchen cabinet. āHad I imagined that, at some point, 12 people would be in my house wanting champagne?ā Patchett writes. āWho did I think I was going to be next? F. Scott Fitzgerald?ā At the link in our bio, read Patchettās essay on parting with her possessionsāand ideas of who she once aspired to be: http://nyer.cm/MmhrQxn?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fnewyorkermag%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F318597547