So at the end of week #1 of the clothes challenge, here’s what I realize. With clothes, as with life, there’s no end to wanting more until you realize just how much you already have. The value of going through my closet, recombining things, playing with color, texture, and proportion feeds my sense of creativity and play. Very important! But mostly, I realize just how much I have and what a lucky girl I am. And when I realize this, I am, for a moment anyway, satisfied.

For those of us who actually do have enough, if we took the time to see it and recognize it, and lived our lives knowing it, if we weren’t always scrambling on to the next new thing, we’d be able to take a deep breath. And so would the planet.