The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life.

If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move.

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.