Papers Please
Today I’ve been organizing miscellaneous papers and putting them all in one place. This was suggested by a professional organizer I stumbled upon on the internet. The idea is to gather everything first and then sort into piles such as letters to answer and papers that need to be filed or discarded. This way you can see exactly how many items you have and can start to work your way through them. So far, it’s a good project to do on this rainy afternoon. Until now I had some papers in my office, some in the kitchen, some in the living room, and like that. Now that I see them all together – yikes! This has definitely given me something to occupy myself during this hibernation.
I can identify with this problem of papers and projects that seem to have accumulated here, there, and everywhere as I rushed from one scheduled activity to another. Taking time to sort through the piles reveals many best intentions forgotten. As I look over this array I have begun to think how I may rearrange my work spaces to accommodate these different pursuits.
Books. That’s another story! I try to prioritize the order in which I should read them until it’s obvious that, even now, there will not be time to read them all while dealing with these new ideas for creating and organizing better work spaces.
With no end point in view for staying at home, the urgency just isn’t there.
Oh yes, books. Tell us about books. (Former bookstore owner here.)