At least when it comes to my own life, I’m not a Big Picture kind of guy. I’ll happily (and silently) devise grand schemes for others to live by, but in my own case, I get too bogged down in details to make any plans beyond what’s in front of my nose. That’s why I get surprised every so often just because I opened my eyes.

That’s also how my house gets to be so cluttered. I plod through the daily details and do what I have to do without looking around to see the piles of unopened mail rising around me like prison walls. Then every so often I jerk my head up, suddenly awake, and notice things like that. Things better left unnoticed, at least until I’m prepared to do something about them.

So one of these days real soon, when the wind dies down from gale force, I’ll put some effort into finding more space to live in my living space. First, though, I’ll have to put some effort into thinking about where to start, or it will turn out like my garden project. That was the one where I was going to clear out a small area every day, except that when I went out the next day I couldn’t tell where I’d worked the day before.