More or Less

By Carrie Silverhorn

My journey through a self-detox from material attachments to a full life lived minimally.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781458363961

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Prologue

Sitting, watching the blue sky quickly turn to vibrant pinks and oranges, I think to myself. This is the life….this is my life…next to my camper in the wide open desert. In this present moment only. Grateful, at peace, and free, for the first time in my life.

How did I get here? It wasn’t easy. Talk about the internal detox from Hell.

Cue the backstory.

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Backstory

I grew up in a small town in Oklahoma. Daughter to a Janitor and a Medical Transcriptionist (secretary). To say we had little was an understatement. This being so, there was no lack of stuff around. Stuff on the table. Stuff in the car. Stuff in the hallway.

My Grandparents, who helped raise me and whom I revered, also were active ambassadors of stuff. Every shelf had hundreds of knick knacks on them. Collectible bears, stuffed animals, coffee mugs and an obscene amount of glass bud vases. You know the kind you get from the flower shop. My Nana would not get rid of any of this stuff. It was all attached to memories of when they got it, who gave it to them and so on. And of course the famous line of we might need it someday ...yup 32 bud vases might just be the thing