Tidy places.......

The idea of tidy fascinates me.....and makes me muse.....learning about astrology like I have, and more about the human condition, and the things we arrive with helps me with all of those things....I think sometimes we wish we were more like this, or less like that, but we are just who we are.....I speak often of evolving and changing in my blog, and believe that to be paramount in this life.....to not be the same human you were in your 20s as you are in your 90s;-) Embracing the evolution of change that finds us all.....but there are inherent places in us that run far and wide.....I love for things to look beautiful....I REALLY do, spending lots of time and energy dreaming up ways to achieve that......like my deck in the summer becoming my little escape, a little vacation spot for me....and the inside of my house, spending time creating spaces I love, ones that speak of who I am.....but I also battle the messy part of me.....the one that struggles with keeping order in my day to day, and often has to clean up or reorganize, or tidy up on repeat and spend time doing that.....now having children affects that too lol:) if you are a parent then you know! But I cannot blame it all on them.....My brain works in big picture stuff, globally, shying away from minute details and day to day organizing.....for example. I will clean my bathroom....and organize all my lotions, hair stuff, and make up etc and put it all away and make it look nice....and then a couple weeks go by and my stuff has found its way out of the baskets I designated for them, and are standing on my counter, cluttering it all up....and so it is that energy on repeat that I fight.....and my living room has been always been sacred....in this house....a spotless place that is always ready to rest and relax.....sometimes laundry makes a pit stop there, to be folded because my laundry is down here....but then it gets brought up and order reigns again....and I love it.....love that it is like that.....and now my kitchen is in that same line....not being subject to dishes being in the sink till morning ever, or the dishwasher needed emptying....just tidy and picked up....and I am working hard to make it so.....so I have accepted that it is something that takes work in my day to day for me.....and I am always working at it....I spend a lot of time on those things but still some stuff evades me.....I used to watch my mom fold stuff and think she could work for the Gap lol:) And wonder why my brain didn't work that way lol She is a tidy person and so is my dad.....and so the struggle within me is not easily understood.....and I need some things to be neat, and don't care about others....so it is not straightforward.....so my goal now is to do my best to remain tidy in as many rooms as I can muster on a regular basis.....my workout room, and dining room, are also tidy, I do a good job at keeping my downstairs together.....and looking lovely, it is the upstairs that challenges me often....where there is high daily traffic:) So I guess my point is, I enjoy tidy and seek to find it as often as I can, but also recognize and give grace to the part of me that finds it challenging.....and life is a dance just like that.....finding acceptance for others, and for ourselves.....being human isn't easy.....not at all.....and we all come in with mighty strengths and stuff that challenges us. I believe we should make time to be more understanding of others.....realizing that just because some stuff is easy for us doesn't mean it is for others....and being more accepting of who we are:) Enjoy the day! Can't believe it is Wednesday:)