After four straight days of organizing I feel wiped-out physically, mentally, and emotionally. The process of clearing boxes in our basement stored from traumatic years of my life (2007, 2008, and 2009) has felt like I am both the patient suffering an invasion-of-body as well as the doctor making the decisions/incisions. We reached a major […]
We continue to unpack boxes from the years 2007, 2008, and 2009, stored for the last five years in our basement. Items like this tupperware container and travel-mug are easy to integrate into the now. These items are practical and hold no trauma triggers from the past. Upon unpacking this kind of stuff, I can […]
The grief process is a funny business. So very sad am I to again accept the fact that my parents are dead, as I write with love their first names on post-it notes and stick them on the wall. Today I spent solo-session time (unexpected because of a major snow storm, 3 hours) creating meta-labels […]
Being intentional about re-creating my life (after 10 years of parent-care) isn’t without pain. The room pictured here was previously my father’s reading room; we are now transforming the room into our own study. All of the furniture is from my family home (moved November 2013). The books today placed in the cabinet have been […]
God knows where I found the will to continue organizing on Saturday afternoon, February 1; My beloved Karl was committed to unpacking the boxes from 2007-2008 that we’d stacked for him, and his presence supported my own in continuing to get-it-done (unpacking and categorizing remaining 2007-2008 boxes in the basement). For three hours I focused […]
Boxes from the years 2007, 2008, and 2009 were stacked high on two palettes (4’w x 7’l x 5’h) for five years (since our 2009 move-in). A 3-hour organizing session with a professional organizer yesterday helped me to get started with dismantling this mountain (see a before photo at my earlier post, “Unpacking the Past”). […]
This week we achieved a level of order and harmony in the kitchen ne’er before conceived much less realized. We also continued unpacking 2007 boxes in the basement. Each 3-hour project has brought a greater feeling of being settled in the home we’ve occupied for five years. At the same time, touching again the physical […]
The picture above represents the first time that these spices have lived in visual harmony together at our home since we moved to our home five years ago. These spices represent two single lives becoming one in 2009, a happy marriage of the right spices paired in 2012, the spice of new freedom in 2013, […]
We are one week into a 3-month organizing project that targets boxes packed and moved quickly in 2007 (and unopened since that time). Feeling good about our progress this week, I decided to venture down to the basement boxes myself today for a couple of hours prior to watching Syracuse v. Miami men’s college hoops. […]
Didn’t think I’d ever be writing about “homeroom” as a topic. This word came to me anew after an afternoon rest today in a south-facing small room we usually use as a guest room. The room has room for two twin beds and not much more. The level of rest I reached today led me […]
