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Today I am in kind of a funk. No particular reason. Feeling unsettled, quiet, tired. I'm feeling a little of the I-know-the-grass-isn't-always-greener-but-I-can't-help-it-
itis. I'm really trying to do some inner centering and grounding and just be grateful for where I am right now. Also feeling a bit lacking in the self-esteem department. No particular reaons. Probably just because I'm in my head too much. Yesterday I read
this on
Delaney Gates blog and I needed to hear it. I need a vacation. Time to completely clear my mind and relax. Not worry about the to-do lists. Or the should-be-doing lists. Although teaching has wound down for the year I still have my other work which gets busier in the summer with vacation coverage. I can't complain. I work 3-day work weeks in the summer. Can't beat that. I have so many projects and things I want to do. That is part of my problem. I overwhelm myself with ideas and projects and feel this nagging feeling when I don't finish
everything.
Can anyone relate?
So today it is in my best interests to stick with tradition and do my Monday Gratitudes...
Today I am grateful for:
- clean laundry done and in the drawers
- five minutes I took to sit in the sun on the balcony
- new Martha Stewart magazine and a summer recipe booklet to get inspiration
- cabinets and fridge are full of good things
- flip-flops
- lemonade by Paul Newman
- burger dinner
- grades are done...now to take a deep breath and send them in
- coffee
- internet
- reading others thoughts on blogs that could be my own
- my art
- new art journal
- watercolor crayons
- getting the mail...especially if there are fun catalogues or magainzes
- new magazines
- a book to read
That helped a bit...
Happy Monday!
2 comments:
I can completely relate Emily. Some days (many days) I wish I could just switch my head off. Hope you have a good week and start to come out of the funk.
I am very much there. The downside of having so many interests is that you want to do everything; you make progress in one area but don't enjoy it because there are all those other things you "should" do!
I'm reading a book called "Too Perfect" which deals with some of these issues, and it is helping a lot. I think the grateful lists you make are also helpful to change focus. I do a little of that in my journal.
Hope you feel better soon!
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