Clean Fu: The Art of Cleanliness

So it begins…

My wife Anne passed away 104 days ago on my 45th birthday from complications of breast cancer. I miss her so badly.

A few weeks after she passed away when I was able to stay in our house alone for the first couple of days, I wrote a book named Clean Fu: The Art of Cleanliness. Only one original copy will ever exist as it is hand-written. The idea was to capture all the lessons that Anne taught me about cleaning house so that I would not forget them. She was a bit obsessive-compulsive about keeping things clean especially when it came to washing hands. She got to the point where she would just say, “hands!”, I would know that she was about ready to lose her shit because I hadn’t washed my hands since I had entered the door or after other activities like that. I miss her diligence. I just am not geared the same way that she was about such matters.

One of my favorite movies is Kung Fu Panda which provided me comfort during the first few weeks of Anne’s passing. I never really just sat down to watch it, I just played it in the background, but it was something about studying martial arts and the idea of being disciplined about staying clean that inspired me to create a martial art of my own: Clean Fu. I knew in my heart of hearts that Anne would think it was hilarious and it would please her very much that I would focus more and more on cleanliness. Anne is the Grandmaster of Clean Fu. I am merely a student that studied under the master. My goal is to provide all the essentials that Anne taught me about running a household that included herself, myself, and our son Caden (her stepson).

I have tried hundreds of other ventures in my life which have all failed and faltered. I love Anne with all of my heart. She was such a great wife, my soulmate. I want to honor her in every way possible. Currently, I feel so numb. I know she is gone to heaven forever, however, I still cannot quite wrap my heart around the fact that she is gone away from me. We were only together for 7 years of which we were married a little over 5 years. She is everything to me. She and Caden are the only things in this world that matter to me. It’s heartwrenching that our little family of 3 is now back down to a family of 2. I never thought I would be a single dad again. I never thought that Anne would pass away suddenly. I guess that is what happens when you are never thinking about these things. They catch you by utter surprise…

So, somehow, this venture has to be different. I don’t know how, but it will be. Even typing that, it doesn’t seem real enough to me. Not sure how you can make a venture out of a set of cleanliness philosophies, however, stranger things have happened. I will do my best and honor my late wife Anne.

Geoff Cox

Friday, June 11th, 2022 @ 1:50 am