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I admit to being impulsive and finding myself in hot water because of it, especially if I've engaged with someone who is only comfortable in a rigid, well-defined process. In which they tell me, "We started this, this is how it is done, let's finish it this way." Some things aren't worth finishing, and sometimes the process shapes the tasks and rhythm. Flex is important to any process. Failure is as important a teacher as success. That said, today was another stretch. The office ('permission to flit' room) looks and works great. So we went next door to the guest room, labeled the 'flit' room. I had written about my struggle with the room early last week, wanting to bring certain things into the office that I needed to work on my PhD and art. I couldn't find them initially, buried under piles we removed from the office. Lynn asked, "Why didn't you trust God's timing, and trust me to help you? Why did you feel you had to push throu...

By Thursday morning, Rebekah has helped me move the pressboard cubbies off the desk and into the next room. I start to put the gift wrap and ribbon in the slots. The rolling files move across the room, and the art table and mangle sit in place with access to the closets. The vacuum has access to every corner of the room, and I'm writing on my paper. It makes me happy to come in. I walk down the hall to stand in the doorway a few times a day, even when I'm not working. Breathing in the space. The books have room to spread out on my desk, the papers are stacked in piles that I can easily sift for info. What a relief! I've brought few things in and continue to move things out. Yesterday when I read my "essence" cards on the wall, two of them had changed. I put a post-it with "Focus" on the Writing wall, and move "Truth" across the room to the Creativity wall. The desperation for "Freedom" to create is gone, a casualty of gaining char...

Tuesday 1. It's been a few months of decluttering. Since summer, my home office was the collection station for 2 full bookcases, a gift closet, and other items from a reworked guest room (cleared for a boarder who came for 6 months and moved out Sunday.) I quit my job 1 1/2 weeks ago and brought the office accumulation back into the house. The boarder moved out Sunday and I got home late from a trip yesterday (Monday). Last night, I emptied the bookshelves of theology and W and I moved them back out of the office into the vacated guest room next door. The library card case went flat against the wall. Early this morning, I fill the guest room shelves with art books and PhD binders and move the stacks of theology texts to the open office shelves. Lynn arrives as I begin to clear the center of the room. It looks absolute chaos without a 'before' snapshot :-) but I know how much is already done. We did Step 1 of the room a few weeks ago, finding 4 key words that purposed ...