I am doing apartment cleaning and considering things that need to be gone before I leave (to avoid a mad scramble in September). I can only take a large suitcase, a large backpack, and large tupperware container, a small backpack and a carry on suitcase of things back with me. OK so I don’t need to worry too much but…

…the old shoes can’t come with me. No matter how attached I feel to them.

This morning I threw away the keds (March 2006 – March 2007):

Bought the week before I came to Japan and worn until I came back to Vancouver a year later.

More heartbreaking, I through away my Sugar shoes (August 2002 – sometime winter 2007):

They were purchased when I visited my sister in San Fran that many summers ago. I could probably still get another year or so out of them but really, I have not worn them much since the fall and I don’t flatten well for packing.

Actually as I wrote the above I thought about shoe bronzing but that would be heavy and bulky still. Then I thought – oh – I totally should have taken them apart and at least made something with them (something flat). To late…darn it.