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I’m cleaning the art room. Deep cleaning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No guests will be in the guest bedroom for the foreseeable future, so I’m using it as a decision area. Moving all paper supplies into that room. Then I’ll go through them and choose only what I really want to move back into the art room. The rest will either be discarded or donated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the fabric, which in some ways is easier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paper supplies are really way too much and I moved lots of them here to Maine from Connecticut. Now I see them more as fallout from a busier, more unexamined life. Unnecessary weight on my spirit. Making it unpleasant to go into my art room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also planning to organize art supplies that are not paper. For awhile I was jumping on every technique or project that came my way. Now I can be more discriminating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My aspiration? To learn to give more focused attention to what matters to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I always have multiple photos to post when I post. There is so much to see and to show. I think it would be good for me to choose one photo and do a little more writing. I’ll give it a try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I gasped when I noticed this bloom beginning. Monarda<\/em> punctata<\/em>, spotted bee balm, one of the native plants I bought this year and planted in the circle garden. It is getting ready to show off. I don’t know what’s going to happen next! The flowers are supposed to be yellow. The woman that sold it to me told me it was not native to Maine, but came from Massachusetts. I bent the rules of my circle garden for it, considering plants will move north with climate change. It joins two other bee balms in my yard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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