Save your Brain Simplify your Cleaning
When I helped my grandma Ella move to Washington, I packed up her home. In her kitchen she had a 1 cup Pyrex measuring cup and a 1 cup...
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Denise Frakes
- Feb 26
- 4 min
Got dust? Got Allergies? Asthma? Dust Bunnies?
Do you have dust problem? Dust bunnies hiding, multiplying, accumulating? You are not alone. Dusting is not the home chore most of us...
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Denise Frakes
- Feb 19
- 5 min
Avoid Clutter Clearing Hangovers!
"Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it...
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Denise Frakes
- Jan 21
- 1 min
Daily Chores and a Course in Miracles
Can we shift the very nature of how we see our "chores". How we speak, move even think of our musts. What defines a chore anyway? How...
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Denise Frakes
- Nov 15, 2022
- 2 min
Today is the leading edge of history
"We need a new way of thinking, a new vocabulary. We have nineteeth-century thinking, but technology is so fast. We have to change our...
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Denise Frakes
- Nov 9, 2022
- 2 min
Do you know what clutter clearing really is?
Clutter clearing is discovering your poetry. Poems remove the filler and fluff and go straight to the heart. Clutter clearing is a...
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Denise Frakes
- Oct 29, 2022
- 2 min
Who do I want to be when I die...
I'm in no rush, but if I'm to live the life that most speaks to my heart, then I need to know who I will be when I die...who I want to...
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Denise Frakes
- Oct 27, 2022
- 3 min
Creating Community...one you love...that loves you
One of my first exposures to what community is comes from a book called Wabi-Sabi for Writers. by Richard R. Powell. This book, is for...
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Denise Frakes
- Oct 22, 2022
- 2 min
Autumn begins Wabi-Sabi Season
As the rains return, the wind starts to blow, the days shorten and darkness takes its place...I remember it's Wabi-Sabi season. ...
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Denise Frakes
- Oct 22, 2022
- 2 min
I treasure the first hours of the day
Ever wake up feeling a bit off? Unsettled, unsure of what you should do or where you should start? That's how I was feeling this...
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Denise Frakes
- Oct 21, 2022
- 3 min
Last night I failed....and it felt horrible.......
I try, and yet I'm still imperfect. I'm an incomplete- unfinished being traveling life the best I can- watching butterflies, running...
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Denise Frakes
- Oct 20, 2022
- 1 min
Do we lose our spontaneous spirit when we create intentional spaces?
"White Space i like air: It is necessary for design to breathe" Wojciech Zielinski What is your greatest gift? Your free spirit, your...
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Denise Frakes
- Apr 23, 2022
- 2 min
A morning filled with snot and self doubt
"May your eyes continue to see beautiful and significant things, and your soul dance to good music." Card Design by Cindy Nelson...
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Denise Frakes
- Apr 23, 2022
- 2 min
Not yet half perfect...
I'm not exactly sure when first heard Mary Oliver. I met her on a women's pilgrimage to Iona Scotland, Gretchen and Lesley read Mary...
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Denise Frakes
- Apr 17, 2022
- 2 min
Throwing mud!
This morning, early this morning, around 2am, I get inspired to collage. I go back to sleep. But in the morning, I had to create....
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Denise Frakes
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
Leave a poem behind when you clean out
April is National Poetry Month. When was the last time you read a poem? Really read it. March 28, 2013 My mom and I were cleaning out...
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