Years ago, I was watching the Oprah show. This episode showcased a professional organizer who helped families tidy up their houses. (The problems of living with prosperity, I know.) This was about the time that a hyper-awareness of ‘stuff’ began. The kind of stuff that we buy, accumulate, and hold when we don’t really need any of it. According to the Story of Stuff Project, we began to realize that “We have a problem with Stuff. We use too much, too much of it is toxic and we don’t share it very well.” So, our living spaces, our natural environment, and I would add our psychological interiors filled up. Our lives are bursting at the seams. In response, there came about a small flurry of effort to clean up, pair down, store and organize in order to reclaim lost spaces.
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