A New Start....what would you leave behind?

Tuesday night we get the keys to our new home.  Julie and I are packed and ready to move.  We are only going two miles away from where we are now, but it seems so much further.  The reason is that this represents a collective fresh start for the both of us.  
The old condo was picked out by Julie four years ago.  I joined her in 2013.  In the last 32 months this sweet little home has been the source of family and friend frivolity. It has kept us warm in the winter and cool in the summer. There has been lots of laughter and love exchanged under this pretty little roof. 
This small condo has also endured much sadness We lost Julie's mom and sweet cousin Sheri. My dad passed last year as well.  We endured a terrible court battle for my matrimonial independence (I don't think this little home could stand one more box of deposition materials.) 
   We are taking our clothes, furniture and cookware.  We would like to leave behind our sad memories from the last 32 months.  So tonight Julie and I are going to write down on a piece of paper all the sad memories we would like to move away from.   We don't want to forget about those we lost, we just don't want to be sad about it anymore. When talking about my dad I would like not to "tear up." I want to talk about how funny he was or how much love he gave my kids. Julie would like to talk about how much fun it was to grow up with Sheri, not how tragic it was that she died so suddenly. 
    We don't want to talk about negative people who were in our lives for so many years and now are not.  We want to leave the negativity behind.  No more "Did William do this? Did Tracy do that?"  They are in the world, they just don't need to be in ours. We really have control about who we talk about and how much time we spend thinking about them.  Unfortunately, we have let these people occupy the residency of our minds. 
We are giving them an eviction notice tonight.
   In addition to the sad memories of our loved ones that we will write down, we will include the list of those people and topics that take away from our positive energy.  When done with this list we will put it in a small broken suitcase and leave it in the middle of our old bedroom.  We will ask this home to do us one more favor and keep this suitcase and its contents as we begin our New Renaissance period. 
(The name of our new street is Donatello.)