Book I bought for my Kindle last night
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter ~ by Margareta Magnusson, 2018
"Death cleaning" sounds morbid, but is an invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings now, before your children or others have to do it for you. Magnusson's radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations and makes the process uplifting rather than over-whelming.
Booking time to contemplate what I've read
This is sometimes the most difficult part of my week. One way I've found to contemplate is to write weekly Monday Mindfulness posts for this blog. Usually, I write about something I've run across in my reading.
Flooded kitchen
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| Not my photo ― it's one I found online to represent my "flooded" window. |
At 2:00 a.m. this morning, a huge thunderstorm began clicking hail against my windows. So I went into the kitchen to look outside without turning on the light and stepped into a huge puddle of water. After trying to stop the flood with a big towel and a small mop, I called security at the desk downstairs and asked if he had access to a big mop and the bucket that wrings out the mop. I wasn't the only one flooded, so he mopped up somewhere else before me and after me. I was afraid the puddle would run around the corner onto my living room carpet and maybe into the apartment below mine. Alex wanted me to wring out my useless towel, while he mopped up the water. Long story short, the kitchen has dried out now, but my towel hanging in the bathroom is still damp.
Book I was reading when the rain started
No One Ever Asked ~ by Katie Ganshert, 2018, fiction (Missouri)
I'm about a fourth of the way into it, curious about what's going to happen next, but stumbling over the three main characters and their multiple friends and family:
(1) Camille Gray — wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman, and champion fundraiser — living a picture-perfect world which is falling apart.
(2) Jen Covington — career nurse who adopted recently and finds it much harder than she anticipated.
(3) Anaya Jones — brand new teacher at Crystal Ridge's top elementary school, unprepared for the powder-keg situation she's stepped into.
Other categories I could include
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- Books I've stacked in too many places
- Books that pair nicely
- Books I'm studying with others
- Books I recently finished
- Book ideas that have me in their thrall
- Bookies like me
But not today. Maybe next week.
For the record: This photo shows the "neat" stacks actually on top of other books on my bookshelves seven years ago. At the moment, I also have stacks on my desk, on two chairs, on the floor, and on top of a small blue corner shelving unit.
1 comment:
The kitchen flood sounds terrible, I hope you figure out where the water came from and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.
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