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[wlmurphy0423]

We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment. - Merle Shain  from Some Men are More Perfect Than Others.

The quiet ones get overlooked. They are the ones whose soft steps go unnoticed, like the slither of a snake that

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[mimisplace]

Beautifully said. It's so easy to flit and run and hop and jump from activity to activity, place to place, relationship to relationship, without ever figuring out why. It can be fine to do that if they're being done for the right reasons. But when they fill a void that you don't even recognize, they will always be ultimately unsatisfying.

Reading about your declutter reminds me of a holiday that a friend invented called Discardia. It's celebrated between the equinox and the solstice [or vice versa, depending on how long you want to celebrate :)] and is about letting go of stuff and ideas that you no longer need. Its approach is small and slow but it's realistic. Check it out - http://www.metagrrrl.com/discardia/

[notnilla]

There is something to be said for the middles-- funny how we're all a bit like those Japanese gardens.

Thank you for the good read that I'm taking into my day (which actually has cleaning out some spaces on my agenda!).

[mimisplace]

How are you doing? you haven't posted anything in a while and I've been thinking of you.