The Saturday Morning Post: Spring Cleaning

For those of us on the top side of the earth, it is spring. Time for a little spring cleaning. My parents grew up with wood or coal fired heat in the winter and spring cleaning was a major need, in my mother's family they rolled up the carpets for the summer. I am not much of a housekeeper, and Brabinger the rumba does a good job on the floors, and Sweet Bear dusts more often I would. So it is not the house, but my mind that needs a spring clean.

I moved into a supervisory position over the winter, and a new colleague started a week later. I need to clear out the doubt about doing well. I have noticed that my concern about doing well, shows as a shadow over the joy.

I need to dust away the past. I was the one who said, just because it is the way we always did things, does not mean that is the way we should do them today. And I find myself looking to the ways of the past.

It has been a shut in winter of long days of working, days when I never step outside the door. I need to get out more, feel the sunshine on my balding head. Put the top down on the Pandavagon* and drive slowly in the fresh air, let the fresh air blow the winter out of my mind.

I need to walk more. Walking more is on my list of goals for the year. I need to do it, not because I am failing to do it, but because it is good for my mental and physical being.

I need to dust off the luggage, pack up and get out of town. We are going to New York in a couple of weeks, I am very much looking forward to seeing friends, and museums, and the city. Unless the world falls apart we are going to Iceland in May for a week. Even if the world falls apart, we should go as long as we can go. It will do me good to get out of the country for a few days.

I need to clean off my desks, both at home and in the office that I am only in a day or two now and then, the detritus of work is stacking up. If only I could hand someone the keys and have my desks cleaned as efficiently as my car.

* Getting a spring clean above is my little VW convertible, a hardtop convertible. Shortly after I bought a five foot tall panda took up permanent residence in the back seat, hence it is known as the Pandavagon.

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