Cleaning and Cards

Something remarkable happened today:

They may seem like two ordinary fileboxes, filled with colorful folders, well-ordered labels, and various documents. Until today, however, they were simply a fantasy.

For the last few years, I have slowly accumulated a pile of notebooks, photos, bills, letters, and general crap, all of which I have pushed from one corner to another. Perhaps the realization that I will have to move all this shit across country--not just across town--helped motivate me. Perhaps this newly-reclaimed free time is unleashing a new zeal for organization. Either way, I am quite relieved and looking forward to recycling all this rubbish:



Wow, this post is kind of boring; it's about files. I'll finish with a quote I took from a photocopied selection about political power and tactics in Saul Alinsky's _Rules for Radicals_: "Power has always derived from two main sources, money and people. Lacking money, the Have-Nots must build power from their own flesh and blood. A mass movement expresses itself with mass tactics. Against the finesse and sophistication of the status quo, the Have-Nots have always had to club their way. In early Renaissance Italy the playing cards showed swords for the nobility (the word spade is a corruption of the Italian word for sword), chalices (which became hearts) for the clergy, diamonds for the merchants, and clubs as the symbol of the peasants." I don't know nothin' bout them politics, but the card tidbit is interesting.