Clearing

“The world is a book. People who don’t travel read only one page.” ––St. Augustine Note: For more current writings, musings, and journeys of a different kind, join me at my [...]

No time to slow down? Q: You talk a lot about the importance of slowing down. But I don’t have time to slow down. I need help clearing fast! How do I effectively use your programs when I [...]

If I were to summarize in the simplest way what I do when I’m space clearing a home, it would be this: I shine light on stuck places and bring them back into balance. In other words, I find [...]

“Instead of thinking about the myriad negative feelings you want to avoid and the myriad things you can buy or do in service of that, think about a single organizing principle that is [...]

“…an old No Fear ad campaign says, ‘the one who dies with the most toys still dies.’ But instead of heeding this simple wisdom, we continue filling our pockets with rocks [...]

“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” –Mary Oliver No, I don’t plan to talk about Moveable Feast – the book in the photo – which I’ve never [...]

[To remember]: At its essence, it means to call back all of our ‘members’ — those aspects in ourselves that we’ve neglected or have scattered or gone missing — and return to the truth of who we [...]

It all began with a wonder question posed by my husband as we contemplated what to do with the cluttered bookcase that takes up an entire wall in our 1875 home: Why would we keep a book? This [...]

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover [...]

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover [...]