You would think it would be easier to clean your damned apartment than to adjust your mood. Yet this second of my 21-day salutes was way, way harder, and not just because I’m a slob.

Making the first meditation about something as obvious as focusing on the happy made the process of writing about it much more straightforward. I either had an obvious blessing conk me on the head or I was tasked with taking something—anything—and finding the good in it. Either way, a relatively easy writing process.

To write about cleaning? Harder. Much, much harder. I know that there are people who make a nice living writing about cleaning (more so, probably, than the people who actually clean), but I wasn’t interested in “just” writing about cleaning. (Although I was happy to give people a few pointers…Neil.)

This whole here blog thing is about process. Specifically, about taking the parts of my process that I can share and doing so, in the hope that some lucky soul will either enjoy the telling of it or learn from my foibles and foible not themselves. Both, if we’re lucky.

It’s my process, too, of course. But what I was doing wasn’t so easy to clarify until yesterday, on Day 20 of this maddening cleaning thing, when I was on the phone with Lily and she casually brought up how she was enjoying the blog lately because I seemed to have found a way “to externalize my process.”

Which just goes to show you: wisdom is like the perfect stiletto heel—you’ll never find it when you’re out there looking. You just have to sit back, relax and trust that eventually, when the time is right, it’ll find its way to you…

xxx
c

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TOPICS: 21 day salutes, Cleaning My Damned Apartment™, truth.

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