Our trip begins before it officially begins.
Which is to say, our trip begins with a garage sale.
the driveway: flooded soccer cleats, skateboards, legos, old guitars. All in our attempt to rid ourselves of this stuff, these...things - they are nothing but things! - that sometimes rule our lives.
We call the garage sale for 9 AM. by 7:30 the first customers showed up - career garage-salers who buy cheap and resell on EBay.
As the day wears on I think often of the well-known rabbinical expression in Pirkei Avot - the Ethics of Our Fathers: "More property, more worries."
Today begins our attempt to reverse that trend, as we unburden ourselves of stuff, unloading that which is is unnecessary from our lives, unattach ourselves from the values and ideas that for so long dictated how we live.
Today begins our Year of Un.