The children's book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" is a non-fiction reference book at my house!

Disclaimer:  This may be a bit long and stream of consciousness but its how I roll :)

"Circle of Hope"

     Today while waiting in the lobby of the orthodontist for my daughter, I picked up a mag "More" (guilty pleasure) and turned to last page,(because that is how I read all magazines back to front; they always put the best stuff in the back) and read the editors note.  It was on disorganization and how she struggled for years believing it was a flaw.  Me too!  And like me, she has come to realize that it just how we are!  There are great perks in "piles"!  When you need to locate a bill or a school note you plop on the floor and begin the search and discover that you "re-member "lost bits of your life.  A letter you forgot to send, a list of ideas, a note from a dear friend, a photo you took out to show the kids...  a treasure! Oh and the bill may or may not be there but the time has been well spent in my World!  I am now inspired and motivated to finish something, send the letter(with a new note attached about why it is six months old), purge, and summarily forced to sit still for a period of time when I am not likely to sit on my own accord.  (I have a Jeep, not a Honda, hyuck hyuck) 




     So while I completely admire my linear, compartmentalized friends...I will take my mash up life any day which can in an instant take what they would call a mistake and turn it into a new creation, full of intent!  It is how I do art...I take a feeling or an experience and turn it into an "expression" with color!  Things get done around me..as if by magic!  Like when juice is spilled on the floor...the floor gets cleaned!  I have come to depend on what you call mishaps to pull me back into the necessary and since everything seeks balance, mishaps (or are they) occur just enough to keep me grounded.  I call it "Functionally Disorganized" and it is a gorgeous way to live!  If you put everything in a drawer in my life...my creativity might just get tucked away, too.  So, "no thanks" to offers of organizing help... I am happy in my crazy, colorful life!