One thing leads to another...
Have you ever heard of the broken window Theory? A few years ago, I was doing a green cleaning talk for the City of Fed Way. Reece from...
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Denise Frakes
Mar 142 min
Inspired Clutter Clearing
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom." Anais Nin Start Kindly. Say nice...
Denise Frakes
Jan 215 min
Habits are Seeds
Habits are like seeds. If you can grow a plant...you can grow a new habit. Habits have behave like plants. You give them care, give...
Denise Frakes
Jan 185 min
4 Habits of Joy and the Beginning
At the end of December, the day my mom went back home to Colorado, I was sad. Of course, I was going to miss her. But this feeling was...
Denise Frakes
Jan 12 min
Beginning again...
Yesterday I was at Fred Meyer's. Popping into a grocery store this time of year is fun to watch. How things shift. This...
Denise Frakes
Dec 8, 20233 min
Cleaning out the Bones- Unconventional Clutter Clearing
Cleaning is ordinary...until you decide it's poetry...and then it becomes extraordinary We do what we know. I coach, teach clutter...
Denise Frakes
Nov 9, 20232 min
Why uncluttering is my go to mental health tool
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha Yesterday, I did a reboot....
Denise Frakes
Oct 26, 20238 min
5 Essentials of a Healing Home: The Ripple Effect
Do you ever think about what makes your home a healing home? How your environment impacts your health & happiness? How you impact your...
Denise Frakes
Aug 22, 20232 min
Wonder is Easy.. Or is it?
This is one of my favorite poems. It reminds me... Wonder is Easy "Wonder is easy when you travel to desert islands in search of...
Denise Frakes
Jul 9, 20231 min
Things left behind...
Question: What do you leave behind? On any given day or week...what do you leave in your wake? Out for a walk this week, my girlfriend...
Denise Frakes
Apr 17, 20232 min
Happy Cows
I was learning about microbiome this weekend. How to create a happy gut. It brought back lessons my dad taught me about feeding and...
Denise Frakes
Mar 9, 20234 min
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...
Denise Frakes
Feb 26, 20234 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...
Denise Frakes
Feb 19, 20235 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...
Denise Frakes
Jan 21, 20231 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...
Denise Frakes
Nov 15, 20222 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...
Denise Frakes
Nov 9, 20222 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...
Denise Frakes
Oct 29, 20222 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...
Denise Frakes
Oct 27, 20223 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...
Denise Frakes
Oct 22, 20222 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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