Fat Tomato Summer 001

A Clean Sweep

How Exactly Do You Eat a Tomato?

One bite at a time.

As we humbly look out into the next eight weeks, remembering we actually have very little power over them, it feels important to mark the starting line.

I’m proposing a basic practice that almost always helps when I'm navigating a transition.

FTS Step 1

Clean some crap out. I mean this in the most literal way.

(On second thought, I mean this in the second most literal way.)

Ruthlessly purging excess stuff magically clears out mental/emotional/spiritual space, too.

I proved the theory a couple of weeks ago without even realizing it. It was finally time to bring my summer clothes out of hiding and swap my sweaters for my copious T’s in various shades of white and blue stripes. I’d read about the virtues of a semi-capsule wardrobe and realized it’s true - we reach for the same items over and over, ignoring other things for years on end, but unwilling to part with them because of some wayward emotional attachment.

I was more determined this time, in part because many of the things I’ve loved for a long time no longer fit. I’ve also made peace with the fact that I’m a woman in my late 40’s who feels most myself when I’m dressed like a middle school boy. I was ready!