This weekend brought me to Vermont to see Katy, of former theme colors fame. When her daughter Yarrow showed me her amazing fruit sticker collection, it was clear to me that she inherited the recreational organization gene that Katy and I posess.
She has a whole binder cataloging different stickers peeled from fruit, sorted according to type and number. Note the comprehensive homemade tabbing system she developed to sort by number. How do they all fit together? Could it possibly be that there is a master fruit catalog somewhere out there, holding the answers?
I have countless stories of recreational cataloging escapades throughout my youth — from kindergarden sticker collections, to bottlecaps laid out in rows on my carpet, to my very first excel spreadsheet cataloging all of the different names J Crew used for the color blue (seafoam, anyone?). For certain children, like Katy, Yarrow, and I, the mere act of collection and sorting is the definition of fun.
