Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

I'm Walkin' Here

OMG that cold this morning! We got up at 4 AM and I was out of the house in the dark at 6:15 to catch the bus. It's autumn but there was a definite spring in my step which continued throughout my Manhattan workday. My feet didn't seem to hurt! I have no idea how long this period without pain will continue, or to what I can attribute it (my podiatrist visit on Saturday? the socks I wore today?), but I'm enjoying it while it lasts. Meanwhile, Robin had indeed continued the Great Shredding Project of Aught-Twenty-Six, including some really old tax records from before we were married, and had filled a further 5 or 6 bags with the detritus. Only seven more years of old financial records to go, then maybe we can give our shredder a bit of a breather. Meanwhile, I'm starting to think about what other paper I want to toss out in our now-paperless society... zines? college records? old poetry books? I'm halfway in Kondo mode (what exactly is sparking joy anyway?) and halfway in "will I want to keep this to supplement my memory lapses in the future?" mode. We'll see which one wins out. Probably the one that's the most organized...

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