Its hidden in the corners

Well, my friends, my summer has been a busy one.  Eventful and fun and great and stressful.   To say its all been peachy would be a stretch.  To say its all been bad, would be a lie.  Most days, it meets right in the middle.  I'll take that, because I suppose I have no choice. 

Our summer here in the north is starting to wind down.  And while I'm definitely not ready for winter coats and boots, you know how I feel about my routine going back to "regular".    I feel as if I've been nesting.   Or getting a late start on the spring cleaning.  Or even better, a super early start!

I've painted Base boards and cleaned closet after closet. I've organized cupboard and purged.  It feels great.  But This cleaning streak came out of nowhere... and I've been thinking it over in my mind ever since...

It seems, or so I've come to notice, that when there is something not right in my life, I will clean.  I don't even know where the energy comes form.  But it comes.  Does this happen to you too?  Its a therapy for me, I guess.  I do a lot of thinking when I clean.  I take out my aggression, I suppose.  Whats to that, I wonder?

I'm thinking, that energy comes from not being able to control the stress that is going on.  My insides can't take the anxiety, so it finds another way to come out.  I'm telling you, friend, My days are full and the big details of my life are pretty great. But there are those things that sit in the corner of my mind, out of plain view of my day to day, that hit my heart the hardest.  And I've managed to turn that into heavy duty cleaning.  Sigh.  I clean out the corners of my literal spaces and take away the stuff that's hidden from plain view.  I wipe the slate clean. Because sometimes in your mind, well, you just cant!

In the next couple of days I gotta sit down and do something that I've been putting of and leaving on our junk pile of a desk.. And I mean that literally and figuratively.  I don't want to take the energy, but it something that needs to be done.  And I'll do it.  But thankfully, I still have a couple areas in my home that haven't been organized and cleaned. 

And, just in case something big comes my way, I'll save the car cleaning for another week..