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11/1/2020

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Pure white tulips.

Outer order, inner calm.

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This is the title of Gretchen Rubin's latest book, but I've long been a convert to this principle.

It really works for me.

Does it work for you too?
15 Comments
julia
12/1/2020 03:01:45 am

It took me more than half my life to truly understand how important “order” was for me. Without it, i experience an ongoing sense of anxiety: too much to be done, and no way to get it done. Getting rid of more than half our stuff and simplifying our home was the most healing thing i could ever have done. ...well of course there was Yoga too!...:-)

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Freda
12/1/2020 02:25:06 pm

I can't help but think well done Julia for seeing it through! To get rid of half your stuff - brava!

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Gail
12/1/2020 03:50:48 am

The outside affects my inner more than the other way.

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Freda
12/1/2020 02:26:00 pm

That's an interesting thought Gail..

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MaryB
12/1/2020 06:14:06 am

Yes ,that is the way my personality works too. I am finding it awfully hard to achieve with family and outside pressure just now. I agree with Julia about the calming of decluttering. Beautiful tulips Freda.!

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Freda
12/1/2020 02:28:04 pm

They just lift my spirits every time I look at them.

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cath
12/1/2020 08:35:42 am

Oh yes, it works for me too. The process of creating order is immensely helpful to create order in my mind. That's where I turn to when I am overwhelmed by...whatever.

A question: I notice you have the (beautiful white, first this year?) tulips on a sliding height. Is that on purpose because of this rather difficult vase to arrange flowers in? (I have a similar one).

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Freda
12/1/2020 02:30:39 pm

I find having order in my surroundings makes me feel free. I will think a little more about what I mean by that!
I have to say I plonked the tulips in the vase and this is how they landed.

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Swissrose
12/1/2020 09:21:06 am

LOL I eventually had to accept my orderly Germanic side - I am half English, half German and have lived most of my life in Switzerland, so I am never really here or there, but have generally felt much more English and/or Swiss... But yes, I crave order and after the chaotic child-rearing years, I wallow in it to a great extent!! It helps to be in neat and tidy Switzerland. On the other hand, it's a great procrastinator ;o Nothing serious or put-offable gets done until I have achieved that calmness around me. Hopeless cause, I suspect!

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Freda
12/1/2020 02:33:39 pm

That is so interesting Swissrose. I've been very influenced by the Scandinavian love of order which made me feel so calm.

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Grace
12/1/2020 09:44:07 am

The older I get, the more I yearn for order. I seem to be constantly clearing out, but there is much work yet to be done to attain order in this house ...

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MaryB
12/1/2020 01:18:26 pm

That's exactly my situation Grace. One day....!

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Freda
12/1/2020 02:38:09 pm

Someone recently said to me about the flooding in Venice 'The tide comes in, the tidegoes out. Life goes on.' Maybe it's like that with our stuff?

Freda
12/1/2020 02:34:40 pm

The phrase about the journey not the destination comes to mind,,,

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Judy
18/1/2020 12:02:58 pm

I like the way you plonk, Freda.

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