Crafting or Crippling?

I got a "smart" phone awhile back.

It was awesome.
The internet was literally at my fingertips.

In two shakes of a lamb's tail I could acquire recipe details pertaining to 

edible greenery for Christmas cookie plates.

Thanks to Pinterest (and Ally Egass) I could mastermind the perfect holiday favors...

...right down to their clustered basket presentation.

I even discovered the most amazing process to track anything and everything in your life...

the Bullet Journal.

It was quite the rabbit hole I traveled down in my obsession to transfer every paper snippet in sight...

...onto the pages of a new moleskin.

By the time I finally resurfaced it was to discover  I was   

sitting in the same old chair,

looking at the same old walls,

and feeling very...

very...

nothing.

Luckily some wise words of wake up by Joshua Becker came my way

and culminated with this quote.

"The first step in crafting the life you want 

is to get rid of everything you don’t."

This was huge.

In so many ways.

Sadly, my first instinct was to make a list of everything I didn't want.

A bullet list.

In my bullet journal.

But...

somewhere in Becker's post 

I recalled a bit about getting up and living.

So instead I turned off the phone,

closed the journal,

and picked up a brush.

I'd lived with those "Dewy Twig" green walls for fifteen years.

Another day with them was something I truly didn't want.

No more peering through the looking glass,

wishing for a life lived in a Pinterest board.

I'll make my own.

Culling and curating by instinct rather than instruction...

....to create a home...

...and craft a life.