Every time I take a morning stroll, I pass our neighbor’s house that has a small labyrinth in the front yard, and a fence where roses attach starting in the spring. Enmeshed in this fence are words such as serenity, peace, and in the largest letters the word “Simplify.”
The word “simplify” has had different meanings to me over the years, and it draws me out more than few other words in my language. It has come to mean to me something as dramatic as my life on sabbatical where everything I owned was contained in a 3’x2’x2’ locker. It can also means something as simple as cleaning out a drawer or a closet.
It has meant simplifying my daily routine, the daily demands, or a complex plot in one of my novels. In the past I have tended to attach myself to people or things that have done anything but simplify my life.
Now with the benefit of hindsight I have learned that over time all material things change as do the circumstances that produced my desire for those material things. They both are gone, and thus they was never any reason to cling to them in the first place.
There I have explained what seeing the word “simplify” brought forth today. I wonder what seeing the word simplify will bring forth tomorrow.
More importantly, what does the word simplify mean to you?
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