the big 'O'

It's a new year. A beginning. I always adore these. Gives me a chance to sweep up the misfortunes and bad choices into a pile, use my industrial-sized broom to tidy up the droppings, and chunk them away. If only it were really that simple. Symbolically, metaphorically and all that literary jazz, I'll do it all.

My husband and I officially opened a small business on January 1. All those small business articles posted in Georgia Connector during the past year got me to thinking about all the work we had been doing, most in secret. All those words I penned that probably no one was reading except my publisher, my husband and myself. All those photos we took of amazing places that are dutifully filed on the hard-drive that no one experienced except my husband, myself and probably Bear. (Bear always assists in the download, whether he likes it or not.) Its name is full circle fotography. yes, lowercase. My husband hates it, but in time, he'll come to love it. Please visit often, www.fullcirclefotography.com. Please like us on Facebook. Tell your friends. We're a business now, so numbers mean something especially to those pesky people to whom we query . . . unfortunately.

That's my first 'O'.

Next, making sense of this pile called my office. Technically, up until a few months ago, it was a spare bedroom with my own little corner in my own little chair (how I love Leslie Ann Warren as Cinderella). If I'm going to do this business thing right, I must become organized and look the part. I figured out that I'm a pack rat. Not necessarily stuff or things, but paper. Notes. Post-its. Reminders. Letters and cards. Yellow pads, most scribbled on. And all important, I must say. I wouldn't dare discard, for who knows what treasured discourse lies on those tattered sheets. They will find a home behind the one shelf with a door.

My second '0'.

There's plenty more 'O's on my list. Organization never ends. I'll be on to my spice rack, my closet, my kitchen drawers and anything else that needs making sense of. Time to de-clutter and make room for the things that will simplify and gratify my life, our life.

Even if it's only a slip of paper.

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