Clearing the clutter

The definitions of “clutter” include:

• a disorderly heap or assemblage; litter
• confused noise; clatter
• a state or condition of confusion

I’ve gradually reached a point where I am beginning to clear the clutter in my life. Some of it is simply an accumulation of things—too many objects gathering dust. Each of these things must have brought me joy at one time or another or I wouldn’t have hung onto them. But now the joy is gone. They have become litter, and