In a few days, my shipping container will leave the New York port and head across the ocean to Constanța, Romania. It holds my books, my instruments, family heirlooms, spiritual items, keepsakes, and some furniture — a twenty-foot container packed with the material record of a life I am moving across an ocean. Everyone, it turns out, has an opinion about this. And there is a particular opinion that echoes, over and over. Did you really need to bring all of that? And the meani