Key to action

My daughter gave this key to me a long time ago. It hangs from an old iron staple stuck in the ceiling beam in my living room.

CanonEyes was talking about replacing keys yesterday. I still have a pot of assorted keys in a drawer, those remaining from a key cull not long ago. Even so, I have no idea what most of them unlock.

I want to embark on a cull of stuff. I want to travel lighter in the world, keeping just the stuff that is useful. But all those micro decisions feel like hard work and it is easier to walk away from it all!

I recall from Latin lessons (oh, so long ago) that impedimenta were all the clobber that Roman soldiers had to cart around with them. Good word!

Still, I have my Action Key to remind me. Liberation from stuff. A little bit at a time. I do have a strategy: pull out a small amount of stuff and pick out the stuff I want to keep. This is a much easier decision than picking out what I don't want, based on the principle that the unconscious mind can't process a negative.