Take your life, and put it in a box. Now put that box in a bigger box, mail that box to yourself and what do you have? A package and too much time on your hands.  But seriously, pack up your life and you will realize you have too much of it. You will see that life is better when you are like Cormac McCarthy: a minimalist. All you need in life can fit in a shopping cart. Just one. And yet we fill shopping carts o'er and o'er again, because like Lay's potato chips, one was ne'er enough. So here's the plan. We take this summer, and we grab what we need from it, and leave what we don't. We leave our sadness, our shoes and worries on the front porch for the boy scouts to pick up and give to Goodwill. We take sunburns, skinned knees and change.... Lots of change. Nickles, dimes, quarters, but maybe not pennies. We'll leave those on the ground because we may need to come back and pick them up for luck later. We take different change, too. We take the-last-week-of-august change. We take that because we have to, but then we turn it into an adventure. You don't have to go far for adventure. 10 blocks = adventure. So grab your novels and vintage tea set and come over 10 blocks to my new backyard. You'll see when you get here.