Regarding the Excess
Koontz - Jodi's head's-up regarding Dan Ho's website struck a chord with me. Think I'll be out to the book store soon for Ho's book-just to affirm that my current mood needs to be heeded.
My current mood has to do with "tipi" living-as my friend Lisa calls it. Nothing stays that can't fit inside your tipi. Many years ago I was in the tipi of a woman living on the edge of the Colorado River, and it was amazing what she could fit into that space! I was flabbergasted. Who would have thought they had so much room! But Lisa's point is that you can sometimes find yourself with so much "stuff" around you that it suffocates you. I agree, and it's time to pare the tipi down. I look around and realize I have too much furniture, too many candles, too many books, (that's a bit blasphemous, but it's true). Just too much. Time to re-align, streamline, get back to a style that I can move in. I truly don't know how it happens---one day there's just too much of everything and it does make me feel like an over-commercialized fool. I love the movie where there are a hundred candles burning, but frankly, it takes too damn long to light them and I can't breath once they are all lit! So out with the candles. That's just one example of the excess. I dated a guy once who said that you couldn't open a cabinet in my house without something falling on your head! That got to me and instigated the last over-haul. But he's been gone a couple years and somehow my old bad habits took over again.
So this week is dedicated to the neighborhood pick-up we have in my area once a year. I'll go through the cabinets and the closets and live by the rule that if I haven't used it in a year, it goes out. I won't entirely abide by the rule, but it's a good starting point. Then I'll go out and get Dan Ho's book, so I can feel good about myself, instead of bad...
My current mood has to do with "tipi" living-as my friend Lisa calls it. Nothing stays that can't fit inside your tipi. Many years ago I was in the tipi of a woman living on the edge of the Colorado River, and it was amazing what she could fit into that space! I was flabbergasted. Who would have thought they had so much room! But Lisa's point is that you can sometimes find yourself with so much "stuff" around you that it suffocates you. I agree, and it's time to pare the tipi down. I look around and realize I have too much furniture, too many candles, too many books, (that's a bit blasphemous, but it's true). Just too much. Time to re-align, streamline, get back to a style that I can move in. I truly don't know how it happens---one day there's just too much of everything and it does make me feel like an over-commercialized fool. I love the movie where there are a hundred candles burning, but frankly, it takes too damn long to light them and I can't breath once they are all lit! So out with the candles. That's just one example of the excess. I dated a guy once who said that you couldn't open a cabinet in my house without something falling on your head! That got to me and instigated the last over-haul. But he's been gone a couple years and somehow my old bad habits took over again.
So this week is dedicated to the neighborhood pick-up we have in my area once a year. I'll go through the cabinets and the closets and live by the rule that if I haven't used it in a year, it goes out. I won't entirely abide by the rule, but it's a good starting point. Then I'll go out and get Dan Ho's book, so I can feel good about myself, instead of bad...
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