From the Vault: Smoke III

[angela_n_hunt]

If you look closely, you can see the damage. It’s there in the center of one of her eyes. So far, you’ve only seen the minor damage. The substantial damage is later. Much later.

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In other news, today I finished about half of the perks for the Save the Negatives campaign and a full two months earlier than I had expected, considering the size of the project. My focus on process and streamlining of workflow has really worked and I’m starting to reap the rewards of my new outlook on creative life.

Not to say that the rest of life isn’t challenging. The van needed over $1000 worth of repairs made on Tuesday and was out of commission for three days. My knee is also not recovered and is once more taped up one side and down the other.

There’s lots of other crap. But…it doesn’t matter.

I’m keeping my eyes on daily practice and daily flow. It seems like such a little thing, but making a point of sticking with the daily gratitude list and meditation every day has made enormous shifts in how well I’m able to handle these challenges. It seems silly that such little things should matter so much, but at least for me, they are.

For whatever reason, I’ll take it.

And on that note, I’m off to play with beads.

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