One Week From Today is Mother's Day
I keep waiting for my writing tone to change. But, since the fall of 2020, it really hasn't. Perhaps in some ways I was just waiting...
“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Welcome to Living in the Mess, the Errickson fam's attempt to chronicle our spontaneous, messy journey from Buffalo, NY to Warwaw, Poland.