Tag Archive: clutter-clearing

Dec
17

Project-Clearing for the New Year

Some wonderful memories and projects must leave my consciousness to prepare for the new. This includes clutter-clearing paper, materials and files to give new ideas and ventures the room they need. Gmail inbox | I insist on clearing/archiving this weekly and treating my inbox as a to-do list. It takes a long time at first, …

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Nov
21

Sagradia Familia, or how I lost my entire first draft of my WIP

Sagrada Familia, Gaudi cathedral in Barcelona

Above is the Sagrada Famlia. National Geographic introduced me to this giant temple designed by Antonio Gaudi. All design elements inspired by shapes in nature, this building deserves an entire post of its own. It’s been under construction since 1882. We in Los Angeles are used to construction projects being infinite, but over one hundred …

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Apr
17

The 5 South Has No Flow

Driving south on the 5 recently (don’t ask), my husband pointed out all the ways in which drivers disrupted the natural flow, the natural way the freeway wants to move.  With every idiot who tailgates and passes when they’re not supposed to pass, all cars are forced to slow down, beholden to this driver who …

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Sep
03

Journey through my past thirty years–in 'things'

….via two large boxes from home. She warned me.  My mother sent an email after shipping off two boxes of  things she ‘would have scrapbooked but obviously won’t get to,” — the next logical conclusion was that I would want all of these ‘things.’ First of all, kudos to Mom for clutter-clearing!  Especially these ‘things’: …

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Jun
06

A good adage for Clutter Clearing – Day 2

One very tricky thing about clearing shared clutter is that sometimes you don’t know how attached your partner is to different items. For instance: I have gone through three phases of streamlining my comic books, and it was down to about twenty.  Once I confirmed with my guru of all-things-comic Corey Blake that no one …

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Jun
03

clutter-clearing question of the day

If I thought I had thrown something away that used to be very dear to me, and I didn’t feel badly about it then, should I feel badly about throwing it out now that I have the choice? There should be a clutter-clearing buddy system.