May 14, 2009
Tao of disgusting dirty messes
If there is some higher spiritual order to be found in accepting the destructive power of children in a home, when the adult present has recused herself from cleaning — giving herself a few days off — a blackbelt in watching a home get dirtier.. then I have one.
My therapist told me to practice doing nothing so I am. Doing. Nothing. Nothing about the mess, the dishes, the food, the floors, the living room… I’m doing other things instead. Things about books and writing, and girlfriends, and spiritual growth.
The dishes, this weeks’, can wait.
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I like that advice; it’s very freeing, I imagine, and I might just take her up on it, through the internet and into my own hard week.
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