company

is coming.  Setting my house in order.   First, the Living Room.  And,  in sisterhood with Dana of ravenandsparrow.typepad.com,  i am taking advantage of the moment to be SURE that all these things that i am dusting  BRING a FEELING of JOY.  

Taken down from the Treasure Shelf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this basket, squashed into the wall at the far end of the futon couch,  Untouched.  Don't want to deal with it today.  I KNOW there is not joy here.  Later.

 

 

 

 

 

My grandson,  the one who is floundering,  made this for me in Middle School.

 

 

It took 2  1/2  hours to clean this shelf and this corner.   I continued on and finished the whole room,  or,  end of the house.   Vacuumed the walls,  the floors,  the books.  Curtain rods.  Sucked up whole Universes of cobwebs behind the shelves and draped from here to there on the ceiling and walls.  

I love it.  LOVE.  It.  Evening Sun shines through and as i've said before,  the Vibrational level is HIGH and Elegant.  I love it when it's like this.  But i also rarely do it.  Given an option for Cloth or OutSide,  it always remains unchosen.   Except when company is coming.  In this way,  I AM my mother's daughter.