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How messy is your office?

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And I wonder why I am stuck in productive procrastination mode. Seriously now! Yikes, is about all I can say about this. I really need this photo to be submitted to "Home Makeover, Office Edition." Who can help this busy crazy ADHD mom get her office back?

If I can stop one heart from breaking

I'm kind of on a poetry kick lately and I feel the need to share one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems. My brother made a plaque of this in cub scouts when he was 8 and hung in our kitchen when I was growing up. I feel like I've always lived by it in some ways and it encapsulates my beliefs. It's at my core...

If I can stop one heart from breaking,

I shall not live in vain;

If I can ease one life the aching,

Or cool one pain,

Or help one fainting robin

Unto his nest again,

I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

Pull My Daisy

Pull my daisy

Tip my cup

Cut my thoughts

for coconuts

Jack my Arden

Gate my shades

Silk my garden

Rose my days

Bone my shadow

Dove my dream

Milk my mind &

Make me cream

Hop my heart on

Harp my height

Hip my angel

Hype my light

Heal the raindrop

Sow the eye

Woe the worm

Work the wise

Stop the hoax

Where's the wake

What's the box

How's the Hicks

Rob my locker

Lick my rocks

Rack my lacks

Lark my looks

Whore my door

Beat my beer

Craze my hair

Bare my poor

Say my oops

Ope my shell

Roll my bones

Ring my bell

Pope my parts

Pop my pet

Poke my pap

Pit my plum

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady

1951, 1958?, 1961