Toni said I should post a picture of my desk every day until I get it clean.* This is as clean as it gets. This is a working desk. Besides, I have stuff around. I need to be able to see stuff, reach for it and grab it without opening drawers or walking away from the desk. And yeah, a lot of this “stuff” may not look like “stuff” I really, actually need. Like this:



Why do I need that within my reach, you ask? Why do I need to see that?

Because it’s a reminder. No, it’s not a reminder of a time when magic was just taking form, when we were all just meeting and falling in love with a lonely boy who was a wizard.

It’s a reminder of a time when people were claiming the books were satanic, were even burning them, and I made a trip across town to a children’s book store that no longer exists to buy this button to wear, to show people that I believe in the magic of reading, that I support the books.

I don’t want to forget that time, and I almost said, because it might come back for another book, another idea that is about childhood and innocence and good vs evil and imagination.

And then I found this. And more like it.

And yeah. That’s why.

* And if I decided to post a picture, a “state of the desk,” every day in holidailies? Would it stay straighter? Hmm.