The grades have been submitted. The papers shuffled to be filed away another day... (I am so sorry - My GTD regime suffers in time like these....)
I try to turn my mind to creative projects and the things to do that don't have to do with school...but the transition is hard. I either poke at next quarter's syllabi or read/watch pointless books/movies....
The importance of fallow time - - of letting the field of my mind rest so that new sprouts of ideas and creativity can begin to peek out -- is difficult to affirm. Before I know it, I will be back at school, teaching classes again. Before I know it, I will be juggling life, online classes, on campus classes and administrative junk...
How to find time just to breathe? How to find space in life for the artwork that is one of the purposes of this life?
Projects jockey for attention - - I will be at peace with what I do and what I can't do. I will honor the process.
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Hiya Kate - thanks for this post. I've been going through Jane's stuff (as I told you the other day) and found a scrap of paper with her handwriting on it. It reads:
"Are you doing today what you really want to be doing, and if not, what are you doing to change that?" Good questions for all of us.
The difficulty for me is to be kind to myself when I find myself having wasted an hour (or more!) doing "non-productive" things. (I put this in quotes because oftentimes these activities are productive, just not in obvious ways.)
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