I had to take a special day off tomorrow (Monday) in order to have a 4-day weekend, but I took it. For weeks I've been craving an opportunity to fix my nest.
For the past several months, I've been so busy with family and birding that the home has become a big back burner. Instead of putting things away, I've been hiding them. I had actually forgotten where things SHOULD go, where I had DECIDED they should go.
Who doesn't do this, right?
So, I'm making good progress. If I get bored in one room, I change focus and work on another room. I bought hangers. I bought a shoe organizer. I have rearranged furniture. Even that ominous little drawer by the fridge where everything gets hidden has been sorted. There were coupons there from 2001.
Tasks of this magnitude seldom happen without unearthing old memories. I have found several letters I've written the past few years, fully meaning to send. I re-read them in light of where I am currently, and I find myself wondering if sending them would have changed where I am today. I think the question, up for survey, boils down to this:
Does big change require being impetuous? Sure, there's the tortoise and the hare - a call for measured progress, to be sure. But all the big stuff in the movies begs another strategy. It boasts of high success rates with The Big Moment, the move or the words or the declaration which Changes Everything.
So what's your opinion? Which works better? Is it good that I'm re-reading old letters in my keepsake box, or should they have gone in the mail to rest contentedly in someone else's keepsake box or trashcan, as the case may be?
Who most often wins the day? Ben Franklin, or Samuel Goldwyn?
--Laura
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