Colors

Facebook Messenger not only changed how they will be using our data in Marketplace, but also changed the color of their app icon. So, of course, I had to rearrange the whole page on my phone in order to make everything line up properly again.

And, if you don’t organize your phone icons by color, you’re missing out on a massive space of relaxation and ease for your brain. Not to mention that it’s fun keeping them all tidy. Even if you think I’m just nuts right now (and you’d be right to think that), it actually is true. Having the visual order actually helps the brain spend its time and effort elsewhere, instead of on ‘sorting through’ what it sees as a sort of ‘mess’. Considering how much time we spend a day looking at our phone screens, it makes all the more sense to have them tax our brains less, whenever possible.

It also seems absurd to keep phone app icons organized by anything other than type or use (my pages are by use, and each page by color, by the way), because it is. This bring a sense of hilarity to the task of keeping them arranged as they inevitably change color shades and, sometimes, full colors. (By the way, they change a lot.) Every time another one changes, you get to laugh at what you do next. And laughing is good for the soul and body.

For me, there is an extra layer to it all, too, in that I have OCD, so the order also makes me feel happy.

So, yes, I’m nuts. I also have a less-taxed and happy brain when it comes to looking at my phone. I highly recommend giving your brain the same opportunity(!).

Thank you, God, for your love and for this life. And thank you for my body’s ability to begin to forget the pain of labor and childbirth. Heal my baby and my husband, please, making us all well. Keep us safe and together, please. In your name, I pray. Amen.

Post-a-day 2025