Messiness Is Next to Godliness

Dara pointed me at this NYTimes article about the goodness of messiness.

Irwin Kula is a rabbi based in Manhattan and author of “Yearnings: Embracing the Sacred Messiness of Life,” which was published by Hyperion in September. “Order can be profane and life-diminishing,” he said the other day. “It’s a flippant remark, but if you’ve never had a messy kitchen, you’ve probably never had a home-cooked meal. Real life is very messy, but we need to have models about how that messiness works.”

In our house, the saying goes that being messy isn't the same as being dirty. And given the state of my desk at work, I've been known to say "If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk the sign of?"