Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Clutter

How do you live?

What are the colors you surround yourself with?

How do you arrange your possessions? What is the center of your room, your focus? Is there more than one center?

Homes reflect the lives of their people in their squareness, or concentric circles, or even total chaotic-ness.

Usually it is the simplicity that attracts me, but there is an intrigue in the busy corners, those nooks and crannies where the odds and ends of life are stored.

Simplicity can be a value, or a facade. It's hard to tell sometimes.

In a large space, my belongings stand out, each one a single statement about who I am.

In a smaller space these same belongings meld together like some sort of impressionist's depiction.

Either way it really is in the clutter that you find all my ins and outs; all those little idiosyncrasies that define the more complicated parts of me that I couldn't bear to part with.

You can define me by what I have and what I don't have, what I keep and what I give away.

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