I stayed home today but I worked. I worked on the website for my job. I worked on my own website, listing items, photographing new yarn. I cooked a little. I tidied up very little. But I feel like I accomplished a lot.
I made a to-do list the other day and have been marking percentages of items not yet completed and slashing through the ones I completed. That feels good to me. (I had forgotten how much I enjoy crossing things off my list with a pen and paper.) I rewrote the list with the unfinished tasks and added a couple new items. I like discovering new things that inspire me & adding them to the list.
I cleaned a couple shelves of the fridge with bleach wipes and discarded old and unknown items. I found sauerkraut that a friend made and gave us a couple years ago. Its really quite good! (I guess fermenting Does make it last longer!) I know none of this is exciting but I use it all to raise my energy, to make me feel good. I thrive on small accomplishments.
I am an optimist. I always try to look at the upside of things and I am certain the Universe is unfolding exactly as it should. Sometimes I need a reminder of this, too. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed and a gross sense of anxiety about the world and where we are, but this sequestering and quarantining and shutting down can be a godsend if we choose to view it as such.
I am thrilled to finally get nangellini.com off the ground and I am so excited to have a drum carder again to process fiber and I just started dying wool and I’m carding and spinning batts again, and knitting and crocheting things and I have two unfinished pieces on two looms to finish up and I’m looking forward to resleying the table loom a little wider and doing some free form weaving with my hand spun and hand dyed yarns and Breathe, yes take a breath! ….I have some time to do all some of these things and sleep a little later and move some stuck energy in several areas of my creative process…and maybe get on the elliptical for more than one day in a row! If my energy sounds a bit frenetic, now you understand why. There is a lot going on in my brain… not to mention moments where I’m thinking about treadling sequences for weaving or combinations of colors for warping with varying effects, or ….
I know I am not getting everything done today, but I am choosing (consciously) to feel good about what I did get done. I am choosing to find ways to support myself in getting more done with my time off and being efficient and perhaps slightly more focused than the day before. Most of all I am catching myself when I start to beat myself up about not doing it perfectly.
What are you feeling good about today?
“I can choose peace instead of this.” A Course in Miracles
