This is the part of us that can recognize the old patterns - of behavior, structures, personal baggage, material things - that hold us back from creating new things or ways of being.
So when you hear a song, you don't have a lot of baggage of things you associate it with.
The Switch jettisons all that baggage, cutting things off clean except for useful accessories (more to come) like the Pro Controller.
It is not fun nor is it healthy to hold on to baggage from things of the past.
When Flood was on the cusp of the majors, the Reds — fearful, apparently, of having an all-black outfield — traded him to St . Louis a city and franchise with its own heavy racial baggage; among other things, two Cardinals, Enos Slaughter and Joe Garagiola, had harassed Jackie Robinson when the Dodgers played there.
"I come with so much baggage now… things take longer, require more planning, endless appointments, struggles with pain, spasms, bladder… everything".
One thing baggage fees were expected to do but have not done is to reduce the turnaround time at the gate.
Unpacking that baggage, sharing the "thing" that has come to define them and the reason they're at Alice Marshall — more so than learning to survive in the wild, paddle a canoe and fend off a bear — is the key to their rehabilitation and freedom.
Old baggage, no matter how talented, is being thrown out for new employees with a different way of thinking about things.
Baker does mention the successes that President Clinton had in terms of creating a budget surplus (imagine, a surplus), reforming welfare and successfully ending the war in Bosnia, but he seems to illustrate those things as baggage instead of badges of honor.
