I am running on a creative high and I LOVE it!
I belong to a monthly poetry group and tonight was filled with tea, sharing, intelligent discussion and warmth-an amazing night!
For me, the collective energy that comes about when you are in a room with artists who’s work you respect is the best for overcoming a slump or any kind of writer’s block. For me, knowing I have this monthly meeting keeps poetry in my mind and forces me (if only by guilt) to write at least one new piece a month. As my blogs have both sat unattended this week I would normally be sitting her slapping my own hand for not keeping up with my own self-impossed deadlines.
And of course, overlooking all the goals that I set and achieved this month! For one, I completed NaNoWriMo and am so excited about my new novel and cannot wait to complete it! I will be shopping it out after the holidays looking for an agent and a publishing house and the mere prospect of it all has me giddy.
I also am in the process of going Vegan (to my friends and family-sorry I had to tell you this way but it is true 😉 and after only 4 days I feel fantastic. Truth be told it’s a little scary putting it out there. I remember I was vegetarian for months before most people even knew. I was afraid to put something out there that I wasn’t positive I could stick to. Afraid that it would somehow reflect negatively on me if I tried something I couldn’t stick to. Sad really because how boring is life if we only do the things we are good at?
I am learning guitar and practicing (a bit) more and am loving the “jam” times with my husband and daughter (who at 1 likes to help strum and dance to the music and doesn’t care if Mommy messes up).
So all in all I realized that we spend so much energy focusing on our To-Do Lists that we don’t even glance at our Ta-Done! List. We give barely a glance at our accomplishements before rushing off to tackle yet another thing we have to do, neglected to do or didn’t do right the first time. I am working to correct this pattern in my life. The one that says there is so much to be done, the one that spends so much time cleaning the house on the weekend that I barely see my family, the one that rushes around on a Saturday afternoon because there are so many errands and the one who rushes through a meal with friends because I have to “get back to work.”
Today I celebrate my Ta-Dones knowing I am enough, this moment is perfect and I need not be anywhere else.