ANGELRUBY's Blog

I love refrigerator art. The pictures and mementos of special times and people decorate mine and I smile each day getting the cream for the first cup of coffee of the day. Can't help being happy the rest of the day.

Yesterday worked on refinishing a piece of furniture. It was late and I just had enough time to get to the store for food for Ruby. I really felt scrunchy when I looked at the woman in front of me dressed to the nines. I was amazed at all the junk food she was buying. Nothing that I would consider healthy. Then I looked beyond the carefully applied makeup and her hair. I saw a completely different picture. Outside great - inside not so great.

I giggled when I started putting groceries in my refrigerator.  All my mementos on the door  do have to be reorganized - what I was wearing also.  A bit too much stuff stored on top of it, I do have too much stuff  to think about stored on my shoulders. I was happy that the inside of my refrigerator, though it does need a deep cleaning, did not have any unidentifiable things in it and nothing outdated. And everything I just bought would be used soon. I shop with a list so I know exactly what I need and will use.

Many, many years ago, my friend Julian said that how you keep your home is an outward manifestation of what is going on in your mind. It is true. When my mind is scattered and overloaded with stuff - I find the home follows suit. Amazing all these years that if I take care of the house first, make a priority list, everything becomes in balance again.

I could not help thinking about that woman. I bet, like her, the outside of her refrigerator is beautiful and the inside is not.

It is logical to me to treat your refrigerator as an outward manifestation of what is going on in your body. After all, what is in there is what you will be putting in it.  It should be filled with healthy food, beautiful, inside and outside and so should you.