Outward Reflections of Our Identities

In reading the article “Is Pink Necessary?” by Annie Murphy Paul in the 23-January-2011 New York Times Book Review, I was struck by a question posed by the author: “Don’t our possessions reflect who we are…?”

If our possessions reflect who we are, I am an eclectic person. My “stuff” includes my grandparents’ photos as well as my grandchildrens’, with good art and junk side by side. A Gauguin sculpture sits next to a small wooden penguin picked up in Antarctica, the antique Russian box from my mother is next to the pretend glass of spilled wine on the coffee table—one of my favorite objects. So the fun and the serious, the irreverent and the religious fill my home and are indeed a reflection of who I am.

So I will stop complaining that I am a failed minimalist—I have not failed, for I have never really attempted it. I accept my clutter. Its meaning is now evident—I am a cluttered person full of everything in a wonderful jumble of adventures past and present and always ready to go where I haven’t yet been.

happy new year

my own new year's resolution is : " I wont improve this year. "

However this is my newest column incase you do want to improve.

http://www.sdnews.com/view/full_story/10905566/article-Doing-it-better--Change-comes-in-four-steps-?

New Posting

This is all possible because my grandson Eliot, who is a newspaper writer on a visit here from New York, has finally shown me how to use this blog. So now I will.

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Fun While Dieting?

Half the Fun?

“Getting there

is half the fun!”

Not if you’re

on a diet…

The Celebration

I finally made it

I lost ten pounds

I look terrific

my clothes fit well

even a little too loosely

I have new cheekbones

a smaller waist

can tuck my shirt in

instead of needing a loose blouse

to hide my big hips

How shall I celebrate?

With a triple scoop of ice cream?

a large slice of New York cheesecake?

a big piece of lemon meringue pie?

a huge portion of chocolate mousse?

a whole box of candy?

Oh, well!

I guess I’ll have some low-fat cottage cheese

on a small piece of salt-free melba toast!

Published Books of Poetry by Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.

Thoughts for My Weight Management Club

Wrong Century
by Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.

If I lived in the time of
Rembrandt or Rubens or Renoir
when women had full breasts,
large buttocks and big thighs
where dimples and folds,
were considered beautiful
if I were living then
I would be much too thin

But I live in the time of
Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue magazine
and so I’m too fat


Calorie Saver
by Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.

I’m so glad that cake was tasteless
that the filling was like glue
that the icing looked like toothpaste
I’m so glad

I’m relieved dessert was awful
that the ice cream was too sweet
that the cookies were like cardboard

I didn’t eat

Natasha’s Law

Natasha’s Law
by Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.

Murphy’s Law states that
“anything that can go wrong, will
and always at the worst possible moment”

Parkinson’s Law says that
“work will expand to fill
all the available time”

The Peter Principle observes that
“everyone rises eventually
to a level of incompetence”

And now hear my discovery:
“possessions will expand
to fill all the available space”

This process is not reversible
possessions don’t shrink
when space is reduced

I speak from experience.

Published Books of Poetry by Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.







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