Granular thinking: July 2008 Archives
Do you putter? That's my way of cleaning around the house. A little here and a little here, with no real goal but to clean and tidy what's bugging me the most.
Once in a while, I go all out.
I didn't used to clean this way. I used to think I had to have a plan. I had to go room by room and be thorough.
But in reality, it meant I hardly ever cleaned at all. And I knocked myself out when I did clean, exhausted afterward.
Some people eat the way I used to clean. All or nothing. Binge or starve. Follow the plan. Use brute force to stick with it. Get depressed when you don't. Obsess.
Eating by puttering is normal. We try a bite here, and forkful there. We sometimes don't eat at all.
We eat according to whims, and according to our fancy. We eat by what's bugging us. Mostly we eat a little at a time, a bunch of small meals over the course of the day.
We eat sensibly. Just as we wouldn't use furniture polish on the windows, we don't eat dessert for dinner.
Once in a while, such as on holidays, we go all out.
Eating by puttering is normal eating.
If you do neither cleaning nor eating by puttering, pick one to start with, and then eventually use it to instruct you in how to do the other. Or start puttering both.
Puttering is sacred. Puttering is healthy. Eat by puttering.
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