{"id":2415,"date":"2009-04-18T11:09:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T17:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2009-04-18T12:45:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-18T18:45:20","slug":"on-order-and-clutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"On Order and Clutter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon<\/p>\n<p>A garage cleaning morning.\u00a0 Bringing a bit of order and cleanliness to a space we had neglected for a few years.\u00a0 Felt good.\u00a0 The opening of space and organizing clutter appeals to me as long I do it in discrete chunks over time.\u00a0 In other words, I don&#8217;t feel the call to do this kind of thing often.\u00a0 If you visited my study and computer room, you would know this immediately.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not so much that they&#8217;re cluttered in a messy way, but they do have piles of related papers, books and magazines positioned in strategic locations, dependent on some inner navigator that tracks my future needs and tries to place resources, like nuts in the ground, where they will help the next project at the right moment.<\/p>\n<p>Like many a squirrel, I have nuts buried all over these two rooms that I have forgotten.\u00a0 Every once in a while I discover a particular cache, like the one filled with essays and books related to water, a topic I want to know more about and have the tools to do just that.\u00a0 Now that I know where I put them.<\/p>\n<p>Where is that collection on humanism during the Renaissance?\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s here somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Excuse me now, I have to go hunting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Seed Moon A garage cleaning morning.\u00a0 Bringing a bit of order and cleanliness to a space we had neglected for a few years.\u00a0 Felt good.\u00a0 The opening of space and organizing clutter appeals to me as long I do it in discrete chunks over time.\u00a0 In other words, I don&#8217;t feel the call &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2415\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Order and Clutter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}