One of my summer jobs in college was working for an elderly woman in her home in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. She was twice widowed and living with decades worth of things, many of it valuable antiques, scholarly writing, important newspaper clippings, children's books. She had sold her home and purchased a condo that was a fraction of the size. She had to downsize, but how do you decide what to let go of when everything feels equally important? I think about that j