Weekend Linkages: Two Remarkable YouTube Videos
...Studies into the Past by Laurant Grasso. Japan’s culture of school cleaning Nick Cave: Loss, Learning, Transcendence...
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Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
...he illustrations are Japanese-cute line drawings. It doesn’t look like any cleaning or organization book I’ve ever seen, and that is what makes it special. Kondo understands that tidying is a spiritual activity, not an organizational activity. The same week we got this book, we also had a library book out about home organization. Erik had grabbed it off the new book shelf at the library without looking at it until we got home. It shall remain name...
Picture Sundays: Busy Person’s Correpondence Card
...Found this cleaning out my desk. No idea of the date, but it shows a pre-draught California....
Garden Update Part II: The Good the Bad and a Lot of Ugly
...Yes, a leaf blower is the gardening equivalent of vaping but it does make cleaning up faster. Don’t worry, I leave the leaves in place to enrich the soil. The leaf blower just helps me clear the hardscaping. There’s actually a nice brick patio under the weeds and clutter here. Ugh, more junk. Here’s the nice new patio the Haynes landscaping folks built. The adobe oven is under a blue tarp. Blue tarps are the architectural equivalent of a comb ove...
Vertical Skunks
...I’m going to celebrate our labor day weekend by laboring in the wood shop and not in front of a computer. Links and posts will be back soon. In the meantime, please ponder this clip art courtesy of a local chimney cleaning concern....