Can Organizing Opposites Co-exist?
books, magazines, TV shows, computer research, sticky notes, etc. It really is quite messy looking, but I know exactly where each tidbit of information is located. However, it can leave the dining room table looking like a debris field for weeks! My roommate, on the other hand, believes everything has its own place and needs to stay there or be returned to it – frequently. He likes everything to be contained or concealed, preferably behind closed doors and shut drawers. This concept intrigues me, intellectually. Creatively and figuratively, it unnerves me and creates chaos and confusion. If I can’t see it, I don’t think about it and my thoughts become unfocused and inevitably drift to writing about something inspired by something that IS in my line of sight, which initiates the need to research and acquire other resources and materials which he then hides from me in another newly acquired storage cabinet…. He makes me crazy! As I do him, I’m sure! Our differing organizing styles coul
