I sorted the contract papers from the things that could simply be stored.

One invitation had slipped out of its stack.

I read our names and the date, then put it back without crossing anything out.

Those plans had mattered when we made them.

Keeping a sample did not make the canceled event less canceled.

I labeled the records folder with the year and put the other things away where the boys would not keep finding them during a search for toys.

I could decide later what to discard.