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"With our garnered free time, we are more apt to drain our
creative springs than to refill them.
"With our pitchers, we attempt sometimes
to water a field, not a garden.
"We throw ourselves indiscri-minately into
committees and causes....
"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
"One can only collect a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few....
"Too many activities, and people, and things.
"Too many
worthy activities, valuable things and interesting people.
"For it is not merely
the trivial which clutters our lives but the important as well.
"We can have a
surfeit of treasures--an excess of shells, where one or two would be
significant."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
We need to say "no" to some things so we can give our full
attention to the most important things--especially the things in our homes.
With the end of the calendar year, hopefully some of your projects are coming to fruition, and you time will free up a little. Remember the importance of "the right kind of vacuum."
A certain kind of emptiness of time and space invites creativity, initiative and collaboration within the home.
Don't rush into next year's projects without taking some time to pause and reflect.
After all: staying home is not the same thing as doing nothing worthwhile.
~Oliver & Rachel DeMille, TJEd.org
For more on how to do a Personal Retreat including:
- Six-month "No"
- Six-month "Purge"
- Six-month "Inventory"
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