Friday, January 26, 2007

Therapy


Never in my life have I understood people when they say that cleaning for them is therapeutic.....until last night. Last night, after I did the dishes because I absolutely couldn't stand to live in the house a second longer unless they were done, I decided to clean my baking cupboard. Kind of like in Punch Drunk Love when Adam Sandler says, "I don't know if there is anything wrong because I don't know how other people are," I don't want to admit how long it had been since I'd cleaned ANYTHING deeply. But. This felt marvelous. My soul felt a fraction healthier as soon as I started scrubbing the dried molasses from the bottom shelf, which was all I'd set out to do but soon realized I could feel A LOT better if I kept going. So this is what I did. To some people I'm sure it's not a big deal, but I really feel I've come to a turning point in my life. :)

Happy Friday to all of you. I am delighting in the luxury of being able to choose (without guilt) what I do with my time tonight. I may read for awhile, then watch a movie (I'm thinking The Hours) and then take a bath. I want an early bedtime so I can get up and do my lesson planning for the week. Every weekend I talk about this, but I really want to do it this time. Then I could maybe have time for some exercise and sanity-saving activities during the days I am teaching.

I'll leave you with a way to "energize mind, body & soul" (from the book, 365 Ways to ENERGIZE Mind, Body & Soul):
"NATURE: Mother Nature offers the best medicine for your soul."

1 comment:

Suzie Ridler said...

I can so relate to this! Although it's tough work, cleaning your home can be very liberating and it sounds like you made a break through to come to this realization. Funny, I went on a cleaning frenzy this morning in the kitchen too, there must be something going on with the moon? Welcome to the club, your baking cupboard looks amazing!