Spring is springing

It's that time of year again. How often do we hear that? But it is, nevertheless. One of my favorite times of year, too: spring. Yep, for meteorologists, it has already sprung. For the rest of us, well, we have to wait a couple of weeks, but it's in the air. You may not be able to feel it yet, but I can. The days are getting noticeably longer; it's a bit warmer and wetter; the pace of everyday is starting to pick up; you start getting that feeling that you need to get a few things sorted.

Well, that's how it goes for me at any rate. Spring is the time to clean house, not just literally ... you know, to get rid of that winter grime, to air the place out ... but to make some semblance of a fresh start. This is a good time to think about throwing away all that stuff that has been accumulating, stuff you have no idea why you have or what you're ever going to do with. Most of our stuff in fact.

Let's face it, we in the so-called Industrialized World (and by the way, don't we need to change that label now that we've entered the Information Age?) have way more stuff than we need, and if those I've been talking to lately are being honest, way more than we want. I'm amazed at how much that really is. Oh, I know there are collectors out there. You know, people who can't have enough, keep enough, show off enough. But it's not really helping us, is it? No, too much of what we do really doesn't do a lot for us. For all the information flowing around, for all of it that we have at our fingertips, it is not really helping us all that much. No, we just tend to hang on to a lot of old stuff.

Well, now's the time. Spring is springing, and there's no time like the present to make a fresh start. Chuck out all that old crap, especially the crap in your head. I'm going to. It's time for Spring.