{"id":271,"date":"2012-03-05T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/2012-03-05-clearing-out\/"},"modified":"2012-03-05T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:06:11","slug":"2012-03-05-clearing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/05\/2012-03-05-clearing-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things, commitments, worries, lists, links, emails, projects. They can inspire, stress, depress, transform, consume.<br \/>\nRight now, I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about my life. I&#8217;m also feeling lots of little threads tying me down and making it hard to fly. Perhaps it&#8217;s appropriate I&#8217;m thinking about this on day 4 of <a title=\"the fast\" href=\"http:\/\/info.bahai.org\/article-1-4-7-2.html\">the fast<\/a> &#8211; a chance to take advantage of the spiritual energies of this time to reflect on my choices, my life, my priorities. I still think I&#8217;m approaching all of this in a too materialistic manner, but I&#8217;m going to do my best to focus on the higher dimension to my choices, and recognize the interplay between the material and spiritual.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, after a wonderful weekend with family, I settled in at 9:30 to do stuff. I bustled around for almost 2 hours tackling projects on my computer, cleaning up, putting away, and clearing out. Aaah.<\/p>\n<p>My plan to respond to email when it arrives is going well. I still need to clear old emails. So <del>let me<\/del> I started to link here to a fun email that I hope one day to use: a suggested list of top movies to watch. And when I went to find the actual link, I realized that I somehow hadn&#8217;t included it. A super-useful summary of top movies for the past year, a year I&#8217;ve been out of the loop so much, that would have been super helpful when I wanted to look for a <del>great way to spend<\/del> <del>some<\/del> waste of time. Yes, while in the process of writing this blog post the sprites have had their fun with me. I wanted to link to something materialistic, they said, we won&#8217;t let you! And in fact, we&#8217;ll let you know that you could\/should have 1) not bothered sending yourself that link in the first place, and\/or 2) dealt with it right away so the unread message would not have been sitting in your inbox for almost a month, taunting you and stressing you out as the list of undealt-with items grew and grew.<\/p>\n<p>So, no, I do not have a link to a list of movies. I do have one fewer items in my email inbox, a plan to deal with a series of 4 that I can tackle shortly, and the motivation to keep this up.<\/p>\n<p>The spiritual twist: I have no idea. None at all. But, I hope to find it.<\/p>\n<p>Peace to all!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things, commitments, worries, lists, links, emails, projects. They can inspire, stress, depress, transform, consume. Right now, I&#8217;m feeling pretty good about my life. I&#8217;m also feeling lots of little threads tying me down and making it hard to fly. Perhaps it&#8217;s appropriate I&#8217;m thinking about this on day 4 of the fast &#8211; a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[70,89,216],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self","tag-decluttering","tag-fast","tag-spirit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamillamilligan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}