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Spring Cleaning “Kondoing”

For all hoarders … it’s a festival time!
I need Marie – “crazy tidying fanatic” – home to give me a lesson:)
Better yet, wish she just move in and rid of things and organize while
I take care of her baby<3 Really wonder how this baby will grow up, having a self- proclaimed "tidying freak" as a mother. Thank you Judith for a great book for our reading list. "Life changing Magic of Tidying Up" by Marie Kondo. Here's her recent talk given at Google from UTUBE - searched on ... google:) Click Here:)
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Here’s Wall Street Journal article that summarizes well even though you have to sit through an ad.

“. . . her voice . . . is by turns stern and enchanted,
like a fairy godmother for socks.”

— The Wall Street Journal

“[It is] enough to salute Kondo for her recognition of something quietly profound: that mess is often about unhappiness,
and that the right kind of tidying can be a kind of psychotherapy for the home as well as for the people in it . . .
Its strength is its simplicity.”

— The London Times

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Sigh …

& guess what – Sighing is GOOD FOR YOU:) Who would have thought?

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ONE HUNDRED LOVE SONNETS: XVII

I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

– Pablo Neruda,

“One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII” from The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
TRANSLATED BY MARK EISNER

Just read somewhere – Valentines Day is not just for lovers but for all who love – and that’s ALL of us. In that respect, everyday is a Valentines Day.
It’s Everyday since
Love, like religion requires faith and …practice:)
IMG_9692_smallRose named “Precious Moment” grown in Miyagi prefecture, Japan.

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I LOVE Science Friday … Don’t you? Thank goodness for the PODCAST as we can’t just listen as we get on with the day.