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Note: As of 2017, The New Homemaker is an archive. The articles on the site are all original to TNH. For more musings from Lynn, the person behind this site, go here.


Lately I've found myself relentlessly playing Tetris on the computer. It's a game of manipulating a falling geometric shape into a row of other shapes with the goal of making a solid line of blocks. When the line of blocks is complete, they disappear and the player earns points for every solid row.

It's an adjustment process, all right
Learning to let go of perfection as a goal
Slow down and watch the clouds