Okay

I know that writing my morning pages encourages creativity and helps with my stress level and yet, I have been having a hard time writing them recently.  Half of my brain revolves around worry about what will happen at work, to allergies, taxes, bills, the news, to exhaustion, to wondering how I have managed to get to this place and shape in the process of busyness.  The other half of my brain is in an almost frenzy of wanting to photograph every minute of my waking day, but I can’t – because of all the reasons above.  I’m going to take myself out and about both days over the weekend, beyond my usual radius, to photograph and explore.

Coincidence?

I forgot to write morning pages on Tuesday and I bombed out on my photo time during lunch – just couldn’t find anything to photograph.  I remembered (barely) yesterday and ended up with more images than I felt comfortable posting.  I also attempted to close up a boundary that was being invaded, by just not responding to a person’s constant annoying calls. And then a call I’ve been waiting for for about a month came through with good news.  Are these things coincidences or not?  I’m posting early today, so I don’t forget and just in case these are not coincidences.

Blog, blog, blog

I get sucked into the blogosphere and almost forget to post my morning pages. Not much sleep last night and off to work again. I did bake – rather maniacally – yesterday. No need to buy bread for weeks now. I walked, talked, met new people, took photos (hard to do around new people met in parks). Even with three days off, I barely scratched the surface of my to do list. That would be okay, because I had a lot of good times, but not okay, because now I have to do all the stuff I avoided at night after work.

Last Day

2008 is drawing to a close and since it’s been a tough year, I’m not sad to see it go. I’m not one to make resolutions for the new year, but feel that these morning pages and my photo blog have been very helpful to me, so I hope to continue. Of course I hope to live a more balanced life – inch by inch it might be possible. Happy New Year!

Morning Pages

I finally realized that what I am doing by blogging is writing morning pages, as suggested by The Artist’s Way.  This time it is part private / part public, but public only to strangers, as I do not intend to tell anyone I know that I am doing this. Perhaps this is the beginning of boundaries, while being more open at the same time?