If you were not one of those people, we can be friends. We had ample opportunity to look at our surroundings day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute. There was nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. That has never been more apparent than this past year, when we were asked to shelter in place, work remotely, be schooled remotely, exercise, dance, and socialize remotely. Our energy is impacted by what we surround ourselves with, whom we surround ourselves with, and what kind of environment we are surrounded by. My copy of the book remains, collecting dust on the bottom rung of a coffee table or nightstand. I have read Kingston’s book, and several others on the art of feng shui, and I’m awakened anew every time, motivated to haul the advisory tomes to the dump, the recycling center, the Goodwill, or the library book fair-shed. Or telling yourself you’ll feel so much better if you went for a walk, and but then kicking back with some inane social-media stalking on your phone instead.” It’s like knowing you should eat your vegetables, but grabbing the bread basket. “What we’re dealing with here is a perennial problem.
“I found two copies of it in my box-of-things-to-get-rid-of that I never got rid of,” she confessed.
I laughed so hard that I couldn’t resist telling a mutual childhood friend that tale. When I told my best friend that I was writing an article on clutter cleaning, she told me that when she was cleaning out her attic she had found no less than three copies of Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui, a decluttering classic by Karen Kingston.
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