“One of the advantages of age, at least as I am experiencing it, is that stuff doesn’t matter nearly so much as I once thought, indeed, as I was reared to value it. Perhaps the great sin of relative affluence is the urge to hoard, to hold on tight if not to acquire more, telling ourselves that prudence like ours could never be greed… Harder still is letting go of the invisible, intangible impediments like envy, arrogance, neediness, and fear. Some of them are troubling, some of them feed my ego, some are there just because that’s where they have always been. If you drag them with you long enough, you forget how heavy they are.”
–Margaret Guenther, Walking Home, p. 84
