during the winter period when I wanted a certain kind of window into the outside world.

Spring is here. And I'm parting with those with appreciative understanding.

Planning to Spring Clean a lot more things with quarterly and seasonal regularity moving forward.

free myself from the stickiness of habits and tendencies that I collected during the winter,

but those things aren't inherently 'clutter' or weren't 'bad habits' from the beginning.

They were sometimes enjoyable, sometimes useful, sometimes kept me in equilibrium