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Today my lovely Swiss-German-Post-it-toting friend, Lisa P. came to help me change my kitchen around. It wasn’t functional and she was just the woman to set it right. She came in with fresh eyes and the ability to see what wasn’t working.
We moved the fridge. This gave us more space to open the side cupboard without having to move the table - something that has always bothered me. Then we took everything out of the cupboards. The kitchen looked like a disaster area, like a group of my son’s teenage friends had lived in it for a week without parents. We wiped the cupboards and decided what to put back in, what to trash.
It feels like this whole year has been one big mess of upheaval and change. but you have to make a mess before you can clean up, and it’s clean up time. It’s about taking everything out of my internal cupboards and deciding what is serving me and what isn’t. It’s about making conscious choices about what I need to keep and what I need to purge. It’s about allowing myself the discomfort of the mess in order to create my new space.
Lisa P also brought me something – a cutting from her prolific rubber plant that she recently pruned. I put it in a vase on my kitchen sill. I like looking at the pruned limb thriving in its glass of water after its own amputation. It makes me smile.
Cleaning can be a drag but it can also be a meditation - the opportunity to move out of the old, and make space for the new. The movement of energy that was stagnant. Look around you and see if there are areas in your home that have stagnated. Decide what to do about them. Plant something green that will grow.
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