52 days left in 2020. Still room to breathe and grow.
Good Things Today: a warm welcome to a new team member at Ompractice! We have *three* new wonderful humans starting in the next several weeks. My heart is full. A 30 minute cycling session, a quick run and walk around the neighborhood, and Yoga Therapy class. Movement! Salmon and roasted zucchini with the new green goddess dip from Trader Joes (great!) Two new episodes of the Mandalorian. I had forgotten the squee level of cuteness of the kid since the fall.
I was glancing through my 2019 year in review, wide-eyed at how different 2020 has been. While I’ve not been able to do some of the things that I love to do most: notably travel, watch movies in the theater, and eat great things out of the house, the venn diagram of things that make me happy and things that I can do at home has great overlap.
With some more space to think, I’m looking at making the most of my next 52 days: doing good meaningful work, moving my body, watching movies, reading, catching up on a little bit of television (my tv has been off most of the year), cooking, home projects, and trying some new things.
After three years of committed solo creative dates (my riff on Artist’s Dates) that were mostly out of the house (lots of museum visits! films! travel!), the first half of 2020 was an absolute fail. I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to buckle down and rethink prioritizing these things for myself instead of giving up on the practice because of the times.
There are a little more than 7 weeks left in the year, I’d like to use this time to re-think my creative inputs and set myself up for a good 2021. So far:
- Week 1: While it’s still unseasonably warm, sit out on the porch with my coffee mug, my blanket, notebooks and a good pen, and refresh my lists, and write out my 52 list prompts for 2021. Bonus points for actually updating them on the blog.
- Week 2: Update my “rolodex” a.k.a. it’s an Airtable with the current addresses of folks I’d like to send mail to. Get my holiday cards printed, and start sending them out! Take a walk across the street and acquire a new set of glorious stamps.
- Week 3: re-charge my DSLR battery and take that sucker out for a long past due spin around the neighborhood. Aim for a “texture walk” since I’m assuming that by that point the flowers are going to be long gone and the leaves are probably going to be taking their… leave for the season.
- Week 4: acquire an inappropriate number of new houseplants.
Also, I learned that Tina Turner practices meditation today.
xo, Sam
