#TheVoidProject 09: Family agreements w/Susan Walter

When someone values experiences over possessions, it’s acceptable to have less stuff. Even preferable. It can become a delicate matter, however, when older generations are ready to pass down their favorite belongings.

Summary

With each move from one home to the next, choices await. About what to keep, what to acquire and what to let go of. These transitions can be opportunities to, "look at a new way of living." And clear organizing principles, with mutual understanding among all involved, pave the way for decision making to be relatively simple and straightforward.

About my guest

Susan Walter is an educator at heart. She’s also an author with a memoir in development -- telling the story of her existential crisis and how it let to becoming a badass advocate. She’s currently moving between states and between careers and in both cases Susan knows where she’ll land. In Philadelphia, working with families and loved ones of people with disabilities, to do future life planning that incorporates the associated legal, financial and tax matters.

More about Susan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-walter-5476319/

Resources and references

Refugee resources
Below are the nine national agencies that hold federal agreements to resettle refugees as of 2022. Many communities also have local resources.

Church World Service, Ethiopian Community Development Council, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and World Relief Corporation.

Capsule wardrobe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_wardrobe

Main Topics

1:38I said yes to everything
2:53canoeing in the Boundary Waters
5:59furnish the way the space needed to be used
6:13we looked at a new way of living
8:46choosing to donate to a refugee settlement program
10:20conversation with mom
13:59pod lady living out of suitcases
17:19capsule wardrobe
18:44care taking for an adult child with disabilities

Podcast theme music
empty by Tea K Pea
freemusicarchive.org/music/tea-k-pea/

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