Cleaning the mind (and home)
After another long lull in activity here, I finally have my mind in a place where I can write again. Maybe one day my “mind outages” will be less frequent. Essentially what happens is I go into a sort of preservation mode whereby I dedicate all my energy to work and absolutely necessary tasks to keep myself afloat. Everything else gets sort of paused. It is not ideal and I do not like it but this is the only way I can weather the storms that occur in my mind. Anyway, around the middle of last week (or was it the week before?) I decided that, although working from home is so much better for me, there was not enough separation between the home office and home life. To that end, I decided to totally redo my work and living spaces to truly separate them. It sounded easy on paper …
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