make room for spring

i don't know if it's spring fever, or knowing another birthday year is about to begin, but today i felt compelled to clear the clutter that has been gathering here for weeks. that spring cleaning urge always starts early in the year for me, but then i get lost in the details, finding old letters to read or magazines to rediscover. and then the decisions: keep it or let it go? today i was all about letting it go.

i kept the letters and the magazines, but i let go of going through them all before i could find a place for them. it's all that unfinished energy, of dreams and plans and projects, left lingering for too long, that actually starts to take shape. become clutter. books waiting for the time to carry them to the used book store. works-in-progress for the shop, still laid out on the desk. that pretty pink sweater i never wear that i want to make armwarmers and felted pouches from. some crocheting resting on the back of the couch, waiting for my return. yarns i no longer want to use (and some of it still able to return!).

today i was willing to say goodbye, to clear those plans to make way for new ones. willing to fold them up and pack them away. i can always unpack them later when i'm ready; now i know where they are.

Comments

[Rosa]

I like the way you think. --gone but not forgotten, for another day, perhaps. Very smart.