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Date Posted: Sat, February 25 2023, 2:38:55
Author: Betsy BFS
Subject: QOTD for Saturday, 02/25/23

Happy Saturday, or Sunday, whichever it is where you are, and a glorious weekend to us all,

People seem to be de-cluttering and purging their home lately. What a grand idea! What a joy is would be to look around and see order, tidy rooms, clean counters, shiney copper pots and pans hanging in an organized array from polished, shiney hanging hooks. Nothing on the bathroom counter except a beautiful flower arrangement that smells exotic.

Welllll, Ain't gonna happen. Not because I don't WANT my home to look like that, but because most of the junk that festoons every flat surface is stuff that needs to be tended to, is awaiting its permanent home, may be needed/desired/required for something as soon as it goes out in the garbage. I have a ton of my "stuff" that I can't bear to part with because it was my mother's or my Gram's. Or the irreplaceable gifts given to me by my kids when they were in school. I now have a whole wall of paintings by my grandchildren! How does a grammie through those things out? I have a whole set of wooden utensils (standing in a broken, but usable ceramic pitcher daughter #2 made for me in the tenth grade,) but the only utensil I use is my mother's wooden spoon.

I could go on and on, but I won't because if I did, no one would ever visit, except Wendy and Meredith who don't mind my eccentricities. I DO clean, constantly, but it always looks worse when I'm done.

It's a sad thing. I keep thinking I'll become a better organizer when I get a little older, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Yesterday, David asked me why I had all of the Books out on the floor, surrounding my chair. It's because at this point, I don't remember where certain things are in which book and while I'm searching for exactly what I'm loking for, I get caught up in some different part of one of the Books, find something I re-discovered for an hour or two, and if they aren't all there, it would be a terrible thing. It all makes perfect sense to me.

If, perchance, anyone ever visits (and I need a weeks notice, please, or heaven only knows how many books will be strewn about on the floor,) don't be alarmed if we lose electricity. I have an array of hand-dipped candles (four kids worth,) hanging on a hook by the door leading to the laundry room. In third grade, each of them spent a day at an historic home, learning about life in the early 19th century. They all made a few sets of candles. I dust them off if I know someone's arriving at some point in the next month.

I bet you think I'm kidding.


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Another random quote. I'll save my planned theme for another week. If I remember what it is.



The following quote is from 'Dragonfly in Amber,' by Diana Gabaldon, Chapter 31, "Mail Call." Copyright© 1992 by Diana Gabaldon. All rights reserved.


I sat quietly, hands loose in my lap, and listened to the beat of my heart. Beating fast from the exertion of the climb, it slowed quickly to a resting pace. The autumn breeze lifted the tendrils of hair from my neck and cooled my fire-flushed cheeks.

I sat, eyes closed, and traced the path of my blood, from secret, thick walls of my heart, blue-purple through the pulmonary artery, reddening swiftly as the sacs of the lungs dumped their burden of oxygen. Then out in a bursting surge through the arch of the aorta, and the tumbling race upward and down and out, through carotids, renals, subclavians. To the smallest capillaries, blooming beneath the surface of the skin, I traced the path of my blood through the systems of my body, remembering the feel of perfection, of health. Of peace.

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[> Claire is so in tune with her body, she reviews organs and bones regularly to be sure all is well. I don't. I wonder if she did that in her own time or was it the experience of being molecularized and thrust through time that makes her feel she has to be sure everything is still working. -- kgp, Sat, February 25 2023, 6:17:24


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[> [> On the decluttering - I have to admit most of it is mine. I'm trying, a bit at a time, to donate things that caught my eye at some point but have no real emotional attachment. I have to confess to impulse purchases. I feel like an idiot when I think of money wasted on junk. -- kgp, Sat, February 25 2023, 6:31:39


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[> [> [> Regarding sensing the organs, didn't she begin to do this after Raymond healed her uterus in Dragonfly in Amber? That's the first I recall her "seeing" her organs. As for decluttering, every time I toss or donate something, I need it 2 weeks later...My niece and nephew will have a great time going through the house when we're gone :>) -- Janet, Sat, February 25 2023, 10:32:13


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[> [> [> [> I think it’s a genetic thing like being a night owl or an early bird. My Mom used to keep piles of newspapers and magazines because there “was an article I want to keep.” I swore I wouldn’t do that but had to stop subscriptions not to. -- Kathy in PA, Wed, March 01 2023, 13:48:02


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