HoarderRehab Inspiration: Paying Attention to Falling Stars! Story #1

HoarderRehab Inspiration:  Paying Attention to Falling Stars!  Story #1

I never know where and when inspiration may strike.  It's like a falling star, they are happening all the time, but if it happens in the day they seem invisible and at night, it takes a whole lot of darkness and the right timing to see them!

    Karen Anne Glick's etsy shop banner:

One of my biggest HoarderRehab health issues that is most likely equal to my hoarding issues is insomnia.  

Today I was clumsy tired, dead tired, whacked out tired, the kind of tired that keeps me out of social circles because I have no filter and may inovertly unintentionally offend someone with my dialogue or make them laugh.  However, I tend to offend more than create laughter, so I just don't take the risk!

I couldn't draft listings on etsy, awmok.com or even my own blog.  I couldn't even watch netflix long enough to get into something!  So with a limited to no attention span, I was clicking inadvertently around etsy, when  a new item listed from one of my favorited shops caught my eye and I went to see it more closely.  Then it hit me, the etsy shop is Karen Anne Glick and on her banner is, "one each day: a quilting practice"  listen, allow, trust honor let go.

    Here it is again, in case you are like me...and took her banner for granted.

 "One a day :  :  a HoarderRehab practice-- listen - allow - trust - honor - let go-"

I'm a frequent visitor to her shop, but never paid close attention til today and there it was a recovering hoarder "mantra" I could use daily too!

As a hoarder, sometimes I'm not sure where I've been, but listening to the messages of the universe is usually not one of them.  Usually the pattern has to be so repeated so many times that I don't even hear it because it just starts sounding like la-la-la-la or I'm too late and miss the boat completely or I think I'm too busy for it, but I've been better at listening now for some reason.  So here is my next list of clues:  allow trust honor let go.

Thank you Karen Anne Glick for your etsy banner and for creating a daily quilt.  I may not look at each one a day, but this time when I did- it had a very strong impact.

Here is the quilt that drew my attention:  etude III

Dated 10.18.2012, this is Karen Anne's one hundred seventieth small art quilt made as part of the daily quilt-making practice she began on 6 march 2012.

I've been to her shop many times because her quilts are irresistible to my eyes! So fantastic amazing little quilts with my favorite-- "little stories!"  It's easy for me to go there and start fav'd everything and spend the day reading!

Along with each quilt is a little written something, a haiku, an alluring title, a little note, like someone left for you on a park bench, frig or bus stop, even little wishes for her friends!  Dreams, concerns, purpose,  being one with her work, humor, solutions, hope in disappointments, history, reality, and at the end of the day she still has time for the small stuff with big meaning!  These "little stories"are like little sparks in someone's day, your day, my day, anyone's day that go with a quilt!

I hope my home one day looks as minimal as this mini quilt.  My dream is for my home to be minimalist organic, which to me means, hardly anything in it decorated with nature.  Natural objects falling into place- just as her quilts do.  Also her shop banner words:  listen allow trust honor let go  Powerful words to live by on my HoarderRehab adventure!  Thank you Karen Anne Glick of Carisle, PA!

How I will use these words:

Listen to the clues around me

Allow them in my life as they come for the moment

Trust my feelings about them

Honor the memory that comes from the feeling

Let go with reconciliation, forgiveness, grace or whatever feeling it takes

How will the words "listen, allow, trust, honor, let go" help you today?