How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

How do you clean up a barn that looks like this?

This is our barn in all its glory

Exactly the same, or so I’m telling myself.

This, if you ask me, is certainly one big huge hairy audacious goal.

I’m feeling more than a little overwhelmed by the thought of somehow wading through this mess and making sense of it. Right now, I can’t see the end at all. All I see are boxes and boxes and boxes of crap.

Yesterday I spent a couple hours in the barn and got a large pile of stuff ready for a yard sale. Today, I’m ready to head out there again. I’m on a roll and, I’m fairly certain, I’ll be able to make a dent in this mess today.

A small dent, to be sure, but a dent.

As my friend Justin said, “The magic is in the doing.” I’m about to find that out. I’m doing. One box at a time.

Isn’t that exactly like how I’ve been saying you ride a bike from Alaska to Argentina?

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