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It’s been a path with many twists and turns … working with you and learning from you at my home was really a powerful experience and changed my life in ways that have made my life profoundly better … I moved to my mom’s house … she’s in a nursing home … and this year, I took on my parents’ house garage that was really crammed with stuff … I still think of you, still,  very often, and appreciate how much you taught me and your wonderful ways of doing, your organizing mania—you made it contagious … Much of my life in the past two years has actually seemed very out of control and there have been many dark phases, it’s felt so hard to get the pieces of my life to fit together and make sense like they once did, but during that time, the brightest spots include the times I’ve decluttered and organized my spaces, and it’s so energizing and uplifting instead of frustrating and depressing like other things. Before I knew you, I was just helpless when it came to organizing things; I was lost, and things were stressful and chaotic. Now, I do pretty well with that part of my life. I think you were helpful with me and with organizing because of your spirituality—that put everything into a larger frame. I had always thought that organizing was just not my thing, I wasn’t the right type of person, but coming from you, it was a different kind of experience than it had been before and that had to do with the spirituality, so that the meaning of the organizing was more than just mundane. It was part of the larger whole. Having things in their places and not having too many things that get in your way – that’s a tool so that you can find meaning and purpose and love in life.

W.J., social worker