Much loud 'discussion' in the Lane household today! The good news is that the silence after didn't last too long and some less heated chat followed, which means we are both growing up a bit! The start of a year often feels like pressure cooker, trying to get 'everything' done as quickly as possible. Yesterday I realised that is NOT what we want to be doing for this year and there is no getting away from the fact that a slow cooker is much more what we need! I have no idea why I am using cooking metaphors, I rarely do any cooking these days and I like it that way, but somehow the things I am thinking about are conveyed most naturally within the nurturing, life-supporting actions surrounding the preparation of meals!
Our mantra during this early part of January has become 'One Job' and I am using it as a meditation aid to bring me back to the slower, simpler approaches that keep me calm and focussed and stop the panicking! I gave myself a nasty shock the other day when I started telling Robin that he too could write a novel this year and he would just have to commit to 500 words a day so that when he did find a space opening up for writing more, there would already be much to work with! I am now quite cross with myself for making it sound so easy and leaving me with no excuses.
My 'One Job' this year is connected to that advice. It sits inside the writing activity and needs me to face the 500 words a day approach and trust that more will come when possible. I do not have to change the world, especially not all at once; I do not have to be responsible for anyone else's 500 words and I have never been dependent on anyone's permission except my own.
Permission Granted. Write on!
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