All that you can't leave behind

Stacks of books, piles of file folders, and reams of paper strew my desk and office floor.  I'm starting the daunting task of packing for our move to Germany. Deciding what to take and what to leave creates a certain anxiety and lends reality to the transition taking place.  I sort, stack, recycle, and review.  The stacks start to shrink as the recycle pile in the garage grows.  Clearing feels freeing.  I don't really know what I'll need for my new job in a new school system in a new country, but I'm starting to trust that what I'll need probably can't be packed in a box.