Packing up

Yesterday I started organizing my things for the trip. As I began to peek into drawers, unearthing useless objects I'd hidden away six months ago, I heard the roar of heavy machinery across the street. A crew was demolishing a small inn that had stood empty all winter. Getting rid of something old to make room for something new: a lovely omen. I got it, I got it!

Jodi, Marlee Matlin's wonderful character on The L Word, said something just gorgeous to Bette during a seduction scene:

"The more I'm afraid of something, the more I know I have to do it. I figured that out when I was a kid. I can lead a protected life, hiding away from the scary world. Or, I can take on the things that scare me the most. The more it might hurt, the more I might die doing it, the more worth doing it must be."

And that resonated as much as the snarling metaphysical demolition taking place within me now. Oh, fuck.