Mar 29, 2012 4:56 PM
Jackson Sabbeth learning to de-clutter on fort pond bay. COURTESY PETER SABBETH
If you are at all like me, you receive at least four or five emails each week with instructions on how to live a meaningful life.
Most of these have been forwarded from both old and new friends. These messages are sent partly because they want to share their thoughts with you, and partly because at the end of the email, there is a threat that all the good things discussed in the email won’t come true for the reader unless he or she forwards it on to a specific number of people. The threat of the spiritual void is always good at inducing action.
Last month, my wife and I were in the middle of one of our countless house moves when I received one of these emails that was entirely... more
Most of these have been forwarded from both old and new friends. These messages are sent partly because they want to share their thoughts with you, and partly because at the end of the email, there is a threat that all the good things discussed in the email won’t come true for the reader unless he or she forwards it on to a specific number of people. The threat of the spiritual void is always good at inducing action.
Last month, my wife and I were in the middle of one of our countless house moves when I received one of these emails that was entirely... more
