Jewells of Thought

I decided sometime during the early part of December to clean out my room. Christmastime is absolutely the perfect time, right? Probably not, but I needed it not just for my room, but for my soul.

Do you ever get that way? Needing to make not just a change of your venue, but to clean out the things we all hang onto for whatever reason? During the middle of one of the craziest Seasons to do so like Christmas?

This did not all happen overnight. I had to work in stages, some big stages sometimes with days and weeks in between. Today has been a little work day so far. However, I have come to some realizations. I have a ledge as I come into my room on the left side. It comes up to my elbow now. When we moved in I was 13 I may have been a bit shorter now that I think about it.

This ledge has become a catch-all for my mail, Bibles, chapstick, keys medicine and just so much other stuff. It has so much space that I tend to forget how much stuff I can actually accumulate in that ledge. It’s really an awesome spot I just need to learn to not throw stuff there and make a way to allow it to breath better.

Already though I like the changes made. It feels good if I could just spend a good full day doing some little things. A couple days ago one of the big stages I dreaded was going through my important papers and figuring out what was truly important. Honestly I had more family history papers and history paperwork in this good foot and a half or more of paperwork.

The good thing is it looks better now than it did in these photos. The middle photo shows my important papers clearer on the right side of the photo. Fortunately my room looks 50% better than it did in these images.

I have made such progress from my disarray of the first big stages of movement that was made. I can now see more of my floor. Without breaking out in a sweat I also made some decisions that would have been more difficult before. I threw away and parted with some not needed or necessary fancies even. These were some not very easy decisions that I very easily parted with DVDs and media that as a historian I hate to throw away due to whatever reason I can come up with. Somehow I found the strength to make these decisions.

Only having so much space and having more of both sides of my grandparents things. Those mean more to me than some of my adolescent ideals. I am also hoping to make space for my typewriter and perhaps some devotional videos to tie in with the blog. It is still trying to be realized and cleaned up to do something new and intriguing like that in my room here.

It’s an idea that partially may have spurned on this cleaning exercise of mine. Once I am able to figure this out and finally cleared out I shall see what I can do for some kind of a video segment story telling and perhaps musical time. I don’t know I just found another one of my music videos that made over 200 views. Something I recorded for Bryan’s birthday, a Big Band song.

You will simply have to tune into the blog to see what I have up my sleeve for the New Year, besides my upcoming birthday.

The cleaning out of the junk has been so good for me. There is more to do though and more to get rid of and put up in a more manageable way. The Devotion Time with Ms. Hunt has been a big journey the past month and now that it’s over I hate to be done with ‘Devotion Time’. So that endeavor has also been an amazing part of my necessary decluttering. Devotions are good for getting at the heart of the problems we don’t always see. I am still digesting what I have learned from those 25 days. It simplified and guided the issues to the forefront like cleaning does.