the bedrock of spring cleaning

When I saw this shot in archives at the beautiful photo blog,
retinal perspectives, I wrote to ask Elizabeth's permission to use it here at Clutterquake. She said yes, and I love it so much I am going to permanently install it in my sidebar also. She took this shot while touring historic Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon.

As luck would have it Elizabeth's latest post, titled distraction, is as close to a perfect commentary on clearing clutter that I've seen. Really, for inspiration, you must read it (and the accompanying photo is marvelous, too).

Thank you so much, Elizabeth, for allowing me to post this excellent shot here ...... and for your commitment to excellence overall at your blog(s).

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a clean start

Tonight I was inspired by posts written by two bloggers I admire. I'm going to keep it simple and basically give you the links for you to discover the commitment, certain joys and the depth of human feeling shared by the authors.


Lily Hydrangea has made ORGANIZE her personal keyword for 2009. I haven't told her this yet, but I adopted it for my keyword yesterday. I like very much the idea of having a word-for-the-year, and there is no more important word for me these days than ORGANIZE. So, Lily, thank you for grounding my intentions. And thank you for this excellent post.



In a tender post filled with gratitude and excitement, Rhiannon wrote of starting over in her own apartment after over two years without a place to call her own. As a bit of background, here is what she wrote in a short post dated February 4, 2008.......

Well, it finally happened, my worse fear...being homeless and in the cold weather..pray for me everyone..and my kitty "lizzie"...never thought it would actually come down to this...it's rather frightening...

Blessings to all,

Thank you for sharing your remarkable journey home, Rhi. And thank you for this most amazing post