Animaterra,

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There is the continuum I'm trying to reverse. The "slider" button, if I inserted it into that continuum honestly, has been way left of center for several weeks. And as a result everything has felt like it was way off the track!

I had done really well all this past year at establishing some new life-supporting habits UPstairs in what I had come to call the "women and children first" room (my office). (Remember the O2-mask-instrux for mothers, on planes?) But when I tried to move these habits DOWNstairs in conjunction with some new goals, I didn't plan very well. Ooops! I merely left out a key ingredient I'd relied upon to to start my day really well no matter what goals I might have set for that particular day.

TBTG, this AM I spotted what that habit had been and immediately saw how easily it could move downstairs, and how in fact I had already taken some preparatory steps that would allow for it-- clearing off a unique slanted table (it had used to be my song-arranging space to hold autoharp and binders and more). In my office it has held the mini-fridge that I just replaced with a larger one set elsewhere in that office.... so now it is CLUTTER-forming space NONONO!

And it is the perfect height and width to serve two downstairs goals/habits/activities for the year. I'm taking back the full-sun spot in the LR for a study space, where I need room to lay out binders, books, and notepads-- and Hardi is planning to share time with me weekly to work on duets so I need an autoharp stand again down here.


So-- this is the last week I will try to pry myself off the puder and TV for study time out on the lovely back porch-- which is fast becoming too cold for much AM settin' time, so I'll just move the materials indoors to this full-sun spot, till real spring comes back.

This full-sun spot is where I started as an autoharper. At that time it was the only logical place for a semi-permanent autoharp set up (I play tabletop style), and I'd sit there hour after hour with sun pouring into my eyes, drenched in autoharp-sound glory, playing hymns I was learning and arranging.

That spot rekindles superb memories; it never did quite work as a magazine-reading spot (wrong chair), but as a sit-up-and-study chair it will be wonderful.

Yay! I win, I win!

~S~