Uncluttered

  Looking through photos on my phone, I was struck by this image looking like the tree is being bowed down by the moon. A heavy load! I can relate to that pretty well, with the last comment my doctor made to me being, "you might be a bit stretched." Hence, there has been a bit of a delay between blog posts. There are things in life that cannot easily be discarded - things such as housework - which will persist with their demands despite physical pain and time constraints. In these circumstances, I guess the trick is to not unnecessarily exacerbate the situation and only think about the housework when actually doing it.  Another useful strategy is to set a couple of achievable, or at least semi-achievable, goals at the beginning of the day. These can then be ticked of, thus dismissing unhelpful and generally inaccurate thoughts such as, "I did absolutely nothing around the house today."  One of my nephews and I sometimes work on our computers in an office in our hous...