Last week, on my radio show ‘A Woman’s Guide To Everything’ on Blog Talk Radio, my co-host Deborah Thorne said something interesting about a full plate. She has actually said many interesting things, but this one I wrote down and told her I was stealing it. We were talking about Christmas decorations. She and her husband share a love of the season, and it’s ability to inspire in a person’s heart the wish to express thoughts of the holidays through lights, and figures from fairytales. These are placed on roofs and lawns, and as they are collected over the years, can gradually take an entire week to arrange.

After this holiday, Deborah and her husband have decided to sell all the decorations in an already set-up ‘yard’ sale. Their kids are grown and they’ve decided that decorating on such a grand scale is an unnecessary task. When I added my own reminiscences of decorating endeavors from years past, and how little I feel compelled to do it these past few years, she responded with the phrase, ‘When you take something off your plate, you make room for something else’.

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