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#Microblog Monday 301: Transition Space

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It feels fitting that the 301st Microblog Monday would be about transitions. Not that it is experiencing a transition except for going from 300 to 301. I guess I’m stretching here.

But I bookmarked this ages ago and clicked the bookmark this weekend to remember what it was. Atlas Obscura set up a booth called the Plotz Plot in Arizona (which blew over by this point). They explain:

Visitors to the Plotz Plot will discover a small metal shed with a sign that reads: “For those experiencing a life transition: This is a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.”

I really love this idea of setting up a physical space where people can take a pilgrimage and shed an object to give themselves closure on one section of their life. To know that the object is sitting with dozens or hundreds of other objects that all meant something enormous to the people who owned them once upon a time.

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6 comments

1 Mali { 06.01.20 at 6:51 am }

Hmm. I was only halfway through your post and I was already thinking about what part of myself I’d like to leave there, what part of myself I no longer need. I love that idea.

But I don’t envisage it as a place full of objects at all. And that made me think of being there surrounded by the unwanted pieces of personalities – the anger, the shame, the resentment, the selfishness, dissatisfaction, fear, etc that other people might have left – and it becomes quite uncomfortable. Maybe I need to look at it as a place of cleansing, instead. Yes. I definitely should!

2 maya { 06.01.20 at 10:23 am }

Oh, thanks for linking to the Plotz Plot! Is this in the book as well? I have the tome on a table somewhere but have never really read it all… And will need to think about what object tied to the past I will want to jettison …

3 Chandra Lynn { 06.01.20 at 3:17 pm }

I like this idea of leaving something behind, but perhaps the “object” for me would be less concrete and more abstract.

4 Symanntha Renn { 06.01.20 at 5:16 pm }

I love this! I wish I had the time to make the trip!

5 Lori Lavender Luz { 06.02.20 at 10:29 am }

What a cool idea!

Now what would I leave there…?

6 Jess { 06.05.20 at 7:43 am }

Love the idea of a Plotz Plot, a physical marking of a life transition. I feel like I’ve had a few Plotz Plots of sorts, where I gave things to friends with children as I’ve gotten further and further away from that time when I thought I’d use them for my own children. It has become a freeing thing to shed some of these things and have a physical marking of a transition. So I think it’s a brilliant thing, to have this sort of pilgrimage!

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