Jinx!

Look at what we humans do, both good and bad. We are capable of so damn much. A complex cluster of contradictions - we are always changing. We come and go. We stay. We get to choose what matters and what counts. We can determine what everything means.

I was feeling shitty yesterday, something in my master plan has shifted and I am being asked (again) to change routes. I’ve been counting on things going a certain way - one step after another. I have been mistakenly counting on consistency again, relying on everything staying the same. But I have a PLAN. Jinx. You would think by now I would know better.

But.

Things change. Struggling with anything that’s happening to make it be other than it already is will always will make me suffer. Even so, I want to protest and push back at reality. Punch it hard right in the eye. Take that! Never works. I cannot always fix things and trying to mostly just makes it hurt worse.

So I ran to my work and my studio. After that I went and met with a dear old friend and her sweet family and wandered around with them for a while - the little ones on scooters, the bigger ones on foot. The scooters were new but the kids bravely practiced keeping their balance, weaving in and out, moving carefully around all the people and dogs and cars that kept coming their way. Waiting patiently when they had to, cruising smooth when the path was clear. Aha. So that’s how it’s done. I trust that you get where I’m going: what wisdom.

WATCHING: I’ll Be Right There

READING: The Art Of Memoir

LISTENING: School of Life Pod

GOING: 10 Women Gallery

Here we go,

Anne

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