![]() She often has clients, she says, who will look at an object and say “Oh, that was my mom’s” in such a melancholy tone that she ends up gently saying: “Do you look at it and see your mom, or do you look at it and see a thing?’” Take it in steps When she begins working with clients, Robards encourages them to talk about where they are in life, and their goals for accomplishing a purge.īut she often runs into roadblocks when she helps someone clear out the home of a parent who has gone to a nursing home, or recently passed away. The process of getting rid of the artifacts of a life - even if it’s your life - is “such an emotional thing,” she says. This is a critical requirement, says Shari Robards, a personal organizer based in Chelsea, Mich. I’m sharing them here in hopes you can avoid some of the angst I’ve gone though. In my mom’s case, picturing her in places where she wore one of her 60 pairs of shoes, which she stored in their original boxes, each shoe wrapped in tissue paper.īut I’ve also learned some valuable lessons from experts who do this for a living. ![]() Memories come flooding back, of the day I bought something, or the person who gave it to me. Regret, because every time I make a decision to give something up, it takes an emotional toll. Vigor, because I’m often facing a deadline, like the arrival of the moving van. ![]() ![]() Each time, I start the process of cleaning with vigor and regret. ![]()
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![]() In Cambridge, for example, settings of his poetry are regularly sung - in hymns - all over the university and city, and anthems based on his poetry rank among the favourites of many singers who love John Blow, Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Benjamin Britten. Herbert's poetry continues to be encountered and understood within the choral and even liturgical traditions today. But though the poetry of George Herbert was popular, and circulated widely after its publication in The Temple in 1633, it was many years before it was extensively set for choral performance, and many of the best settings are by twentieth-century composers. ![]() ![]() John Donne writes, in 'The Triple Foole', about the experience of hearing his own verse sung back to him in this way, though if it ever happened, he was probably more gratified than galled (as he claims). ![]() English poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries often found its way into music: for example, the lyric verse of Philip Sidney (1554-1586), Edmund Spenser (?1552-1599), Samuel Daniel (1562-1619), and others was set and sung in the courts of Elizabeth I and James VI and I. ![]() ![]() Vic is also a committee member of Arena Futures, a hospitality networking group set up to support new people entering the industry to connect, develop and grow. ![]() From project managing podcasts to executing events and delivering impactful press campaigns, no task is too much of a challenge for Vic to get her teeth stuck into. She enjoys the benefit of a full industry view – getting to work with a variety of clients from contract caterers to food manufacturers. She previously worked with luxury and entertainment brands but found her passion for food & drink after joining the William Murray team three years ago. Victoria (or Vic as she likes to be called) has a decade of comms experience across consumer and b2b. My weekends just wouldn’t be the same without them.” “I particularly love the ‘Day in the Life’ features that give a glimpse into women’s working lives – I’m very nosy! I also can’t do without my Sunday Times supplements. ![]() |