Move the furniture from corner to corner.

Make piles. Start each with a theme

and smother it in minutes as your ADHD brain clashes with any sense

of order, structure, or calm.

Move things back and forth.

Take the hinges off your closet doors.

Make a spacious dog bed in front of the row of perpetually forgotten paintings you hold onto,

just in case.

Puttering gives a sense of movement. of action.

Puttering is a word mostly used to describe the elderly, who until now held authority over days filled with household movement and nothing else.

Puttering is its own unit of time now.

Pile the stolen office and craft supplies from past jobs into various bins, crates – put them away.

Leave the box of papers you should probably shred but aren’t entirely sure are even important

pushed against the wall. You’re not a real adult anyway.

Puttering is its own unit of time now.