Some cook, I sew and write: creativity brings joy

Three posts in and I've only begun! Do you see yourself in my experience?  Do you tend to accumulate in spite of yourself? I remember a speaker, Bob Proctor, teaching that we have to create space for what we really want.  He talked about a woman who told him she wanted new drapes.  She had visualized new drapes, but she still didn't have new drapes although months had passed. Bob looked around at her windows which were blocked from view by, you guessed it, drapes. He asked, "Where are you going to PUT new drapes?" The woman looked astonished and said, "Right there," waving her hand at the already draped window. Bob said, "You haven't made room for them.  Take those drapes that you hate down.  Right now." The woman protested because she would have no privacy without something at the windows.  He shrugged at her remarks and said, "I guess you don't really want new drapes." He said she took them down that night, and ...

I started on one track in my last post and wound up somewhere else. Somewhere else important.  Somewhere else that is driving my reason why. Two posts ago, I talked about our attempts to minimize our lifestyle in order to maximize our lives. Because, really, stuff weighs us down. I remember many years ago when we went to Miami, Florida, on a job assignment.  We left everything inside our house for a caretaker to watch over while we put everything we could fit inside our Dodge Grand Caravan.  I wish I had a picture!  I put my kitchen appliances and a few toys along with clothing in with our kids.  We removed one of the captains chairs and moved the bench seat from the back to the middle row and the other captain chair into the back in order to maximize the amount of space we had for our stuff.  Our three kids sat on the bench seat, buckled into the three seat belts, while our dog found just enough space on the floor between their backpacks.  Sh...