February 5, 2019
As a fellow anal compulsive, I have been fascinated by all of the attention being given to Marie Kondo and her systems for organizing one’s life called the KonMari Method. It consists of gathering together all of one’s belongings, one category at a time, and then keeping only those things that “spark joy.” Kondo says that her method is partly inspired by the Shinto religion. Cleaning and organizing things properly can be a spiritual practice in Shintoism, which is concerned with the energy or divine spirit of things, and the right way to live. “Treasuring what you have; treating the objects you own as not disposable, but valuable, no matter their actual monetary worth; and creating displays so you can value each individual object are all essentially Shinto ways of living.”
I think the voters should take the same approach to today’s politicians. We need to ask ourselves which politicians “spark joy” in our lives? Which politicians do we treasure as a national asset? Which politicians set an example of the “right way to live?” Based on the KonMari Method, Donald Trump has to go. We have to clean him out of our “house” so we can spend more time with the people we consider more valuable. Nancy Pelosi is doing what she can to clean him out of her House. Donald Trump casts a pall over everything. Maybe things will not be so bad once you get him out of the way. Unfortunately, once he is gone, there will be a lot more clean up that we will all have to do.
The Spin Doctor 