Why? Because who cares? I care.
Life as a creative person is a struggle.
“To write is to confront one’s demons, look them in the face and live to write about them.” Gloria Anzaldua from Speaking in Tongues: A Letter To 3rd World Women Writers, 1980.
I live with a lot of demons. Probably the biggest one is a sense of inadequacy, of inferiority, of not being good enough.
What is “good enough?”
Continuing to audit my time in my Monk Manual has helped. If I have a lost day – which I sometimes still do – I know it.
This morning I was brave enough to go out and walk the dogs in the pasture. I took my life in my hands and did it. It was an accomplishment. My days are filled with tiny accomplishments.
That may be good enough.
Until later …
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