Declutter, a vacation from the Pause

Carol Durant
3 min readApr 11, 2020

Today I had a vacation from our collective pause. I did not violate any city, county or state directives, I just cleaned my car. Well, not the whole car, just the trunk. It sounds very menial and pedestrian, but the trunk looks like a mobile hoarder show. I have said a bazillion times prior to myself and friends that it needs to be cleaned and I have no time to do it. Ms. Coronavirus has reclaimed time for me. Today was sunny and breezy, so I began my journey.

I received the hoarder gene in the womb from both sides of the family. Having double scoops of ice cream is…

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Carol Durant

author, poet, playwright, recording artist, actor, founder and host of Outliers Poetry Brunch