Sorting Through Papers
I feel like I have papers everywhere! That includes books, newspapers and magazines. I'm in the middle of reading many things. It's a teacher characteristic to read a lot and to keep a lot. We have too many papers. We love articles and we know we'll be able to use them in a teaching project some day. I don't like to discard newspapers till I'm sure I've read them. But they will take over if they aren't discarded, so I spent some time this afternoon reading through newspapers and getting them stacked for recycling.
And now, in addition to the reading material I've already mentioned, I have my husbands old letters to go through. In addition to letters from Linda, there are letters from his dad and from some of his close pals from high school days. His friend, Jim, went into the military out of high school and they kept in touch for some time. I have it in my mind that Jim died a good many years ago but I don't know how or why he died. But how can I throw those letters away? I need to devise a way to keep them safely for posterity. I can't do as he did and put a rubber band around them and drop them into a drum. He did that before plastic protective sheets were so easy to obtain. Today, he would have put them into plastic sleeves, and I probably will do that as I get them sorted out.
But for now, it's a really big task!
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