All that we can't leave behind

I recently relocated and reorganized two storage units that contained the archives of my journalism, my astrology and my personal life. I was moved by the poignancy of these physical-world artifacts.

Repaving outside B29 of Extra Space Storage on moving day. Extra Space was raising my rent every three months, and a terribly depressing setting.

Photos & article by Eric Francis Coppolino

STORAGE UNITS ARE NOW A FIXTURE OF AMERICAN LIFE, and for many, one of its nagging banes. Many people have them in locations remote from where they live today, hoping t…