Posts Tagged ‘hoarding’

No Impact Journal: In Preparation (1)

September 16th, 2011    -    No Comments

Living into the No Impact Week experiment. Though I have yet to read through the week’s instructions for going “no impact” starting Sunday, I have instinctively slowed down and made time to be quiet. A walk to the ocean during work hours, no after school playdate, no squeezing in phone calls. What has arisen duringRead the Rest…


cleaning house: why wait? (part 2)

October 27th, 2010    -    No Comments

Why did I wait? I waited out of fear and avoidance, distraction and disillusion. I was scared. I was in scarcity-thinking. These are some of the powerhouse weapons of scarcity I use most. I think now I can claim that when something piles up and hangs around in my space, that it’s an indication I am relating to it in scarcity, not like it’s wrong or bad, but that it might be starting to suck my energy and drain some attention from what I care about.


cleaning house: why wait? (part 1)

October 20th, 2010    -    No Comments

My family is preparing to move out of our house and into a new space. This requires, as you are most likely familiar, a sifting through some many number of years of purchases, piles and files, corners and drawers, bins and boxes. It’s an odd exercise, I am finding, but has its satisfying moments. BagsRead the Rest…


Sufficient Transitions: Recess from Excess (Part 5 of 7)

November 11th, 2009    -    3 Comments

Sufficiency invites us not to get rid of stuff but to allow our stuff to be part of our flow, the in and out of our lives. The gifting, the exchanging, the transferring, so that our stuff, our relationships, our ideas and our love can be part of the back and forth rhythm of life.


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