{"id":436,"date":"2012-03-24T07:53:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-03-24T07:53:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T13:53:10","slug":"light-in-the-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Light in the Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Funny thing.\u00a0 Most people empty their bookshelves and then sell them.\u00a0 Not so in this home!\u00a0 My better half has been hard at work emptying the shelves all week.\u00a0 He has made numerous trips to the library to donate books; the thrift store to donate books and flotsam; to school to drop off office supplies; and the shredder has been full steam ahead.\u00a0 There is one more shelf to empty and that will happen today.\u00a0 Most of the stuff on the last bookcase belongs to moi.\u00a0 We’re back at it.<\/p>\n

He also procured a massive pile of moving boxes from a friend’s recent move.<\/p>\n

So, once again, I am faced with the daunting task of what goes into those boxes.\u00a0 Why do I save what I save?\u00a0 Why do I toss what I toss?<\/p>\n

At work the other day, I was consumed with making seed-paper castings.\u00a0 I had blenders whirring with paper scraps and cotton linter mixing beautifully into ginkgo leaves and such.\u00a0 Seeds were dropped into each form, water sopped up, and it was so engrossingly wonderful.\u00a0 My fellow art instructor came into my room and was doing her thing.\u00a0 I stopped and said, “Can you imagine having a studio and just doing whatever you wanted to?”\u00a0 We both sighed.<\/p>\n

That’s the spirit I want in my new home.\u00a0 These are the luxury items I need; water, a bit of space and the chance to play with fibre, shells. driftwood, reeds and more.\u00a0 It made me rethink the house plans and I think they’re amazing.\u00a0 The onus is on me to keep all the garbage off of the counters.\u00a0 When either of us wants to use the counter space, I want it to be ready!\u00a0 Frugality in possessions.\u00a0 Touch something once and deal with it.<\/p>\n

Open, clean space.\u00a0 Frugality.\u00a0 Carefully selected treasures on display.\u00a0 Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Funny thing.\u00a0 Most people empty their bookshelves and then sell them.\u00a0 Not so in this home!\u00a0 My better half has been hard at work emptying the shelves all week.\u00a0 He has made numerous trips to the library to donate books; … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}