It was an amazing summer. For the entire season, and then some more, I have been editing, writing, posting and sharing every single day. Yesterday was the first day I did not post anything. It was kind of a bittersweet day. I felt a bit empty for not writing or posting, but I felt slightly free.
Don’t worry everyone, I will still be posting here on the blog, but not every single day. This will give me time to enhance my writing on the blog and also have time on a few more important things…..
My current focus is on my book and my upcoming gallery.
This month I have decided to slow down a bit with the project to concentrate more on writing my book and focus on the logistics of getting it published. It is going to take some research on my part to figure out the best way financially and from a creative perspective as well. I want the book to be read in a different way than people are used to and the design of the book will play a big part in that. I will update you as I work on it more.
Not only that I am still preparing from now until January for my own full exhibit at the Heyde Arts Center in Chippewa Falls, WI. That is about 190 miles for me. I will have to create flyers to promote the gallery, drive there to set up, drive back again for the gallery opening even that I will be hosting and then drive back one last time to take it down. When it’s all said and done that will be about 1170 miles of travel.
All of those miles totally worth it.
It has been fantastic to work with the curator from the Heyde Arts Center and I can’t wait to see everything fall into place. I never thought I would have the honor of having my own gallery especially at the HAC. Truly amazing.
A lesson in overwhelming myself.
September was definitely tough for me. I know how and why it happened. I took on way more than I could handle. I though I could handle a few more responsibilities, but I soon realized I was burning out. No matter how many times we think we can handle new responsibilities we end up creating more stress for ourselves. This is stress we can control.
Burdens are not our choice, but responsibilities are.
Sometimes things happen to us in very unfortunate ways. Those things are usually out of our control. We have to learn to push through those times because we have to. The same goes with responsibilities, but we have the choice to remove some responsibilities from our life, especially when they are not vital to us or our family. We have the right to remove stress from our life to better ourselves in places that need it most.
When you commit to too many things it is easy to just lose control and put less effort into all of those things. That is why investing more energy into my book and the gallery are important to me. I don’t want to pursue them poorly.
As Ron Swanson said,
Never half ass two things. Whole ass one thing.
Pardon his French, but he makes a good point. I encourage you to look at things you have taken on in your life and pursue them with your whole self. Not just a part of you.
Also, in case you haven’t seen it yet, check out my video that was made last month to promote this project.
https://vimeo.com/74577802
