Instant Inspiration

My mother had an innate sense of style. Every corner of her home was well-thought-out and decorated. And everything was always just so, in its place. In her later years, when I would come home to visit, she would sit on the sofa and have me work my way around the room adjusting the exact placement of books, vases, framed photos and figurines.

This was serious business. The instructions were precise: “Move the elephant slightly forward. That’s too much. OK, now rotate it clockwise just a bit.” You get the picture. For some, this task might sound tedious, but I enjoyed it. By that time, I was working at magazines and performing a similar task on photo shoots – looking, examining and adjusting until things were just right.

My mother needed that level of exactitude to fe

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