Time
to Shred
It is January
2018. Good news, I can purge another file box of business receipts.
It’s a struggle getting in and around the close quarters of the
storage room. I throw the boxes out the door causing some of them to
fly across the balcony.
I set myself up
with my brother in law’s, shred one page at a time shredder and
know I am in for a day’s work. I hate this job it is boring and
somewhat back aching.
O here’s a time
sheet, bringing to memory people who I have mostly forgotten. I
wonder how Brinn is doing? She was such a great worker. Amazing how
many of them could not count back to give out change if the computer
defaulted. There were good and better and a few not good at all
workers among them. During the fifteen years there must have been
some 35/40 students that were part of our team.
Did I make a
difference in their lives? Did I show appreciation? Had to let a
couple of them go. What are they doing today? The majority stayed
with me through high school so maybe I wasn’t too bad after all.
Shred -Here
they go in the shredder!
December 2007!!
What a month that was! Little Haven Emporium served health conscious
lunches, delicious home made goods, specialty coffees along with gift
items. The aroma of great food welcomed customers as they came in the
door. Christmas Carols filling the place, special features. Memories
that were pushed in the back of my mind like being tucked away in
that little storage room. I thought of Celine Dion’s song, ‘It’s
all coming back to me now’.
As I filled up
the clear bags and took them to the ECO depot, I thought, well, maybe
this can save just the bark of one tree and if so a piece of my
history will go on living.
Life is like
that. There comes a time for all of us when we need to go into the
backroom filing cabinets of our lives and do some shredding. Some of
the work can be boring and painful but through the mess will come
memories that can give us new perspective for the future.
The past is
always a mixture of the good and the bad. The dark and the light.
Forgetting the things that are behind ….
There are stiil
goals to reach, visions to fulfill. Mountains to climb and deserts to
explore and a filing cabinet that will be filled with new memories.
