To the Earth
Recharge your batteries…
How do you recharge your batteries?
Both physically, as well as metaphorically?
i’ve been adding color to the above drawing, Grandmother’s cherry writing desk. Thinking about time spanning from tree, to desk, then pencil & ink to link technology with keys and screens.
Below, some open mic drawings that span a few weeks as i’ve not been attending or posting weekly. Some catching up to do…
More writing below the drawings, including a stream on ground at the end if your curios, &
Thanks for being here!
i recently blew my fuse with someone,
Yes! lost my cool, lost my ground.
That doesn’t happen very often. i’m generally pretty unflappable, well grounded at least in an emotional sense. (maybe not well enough in other ways, as i’m learning new information about grounding from a bio physical sense, like the way electricity works, but enough for now on that excursion…)
Awk! felt like i created a mess & furthermore it wasn’t just personal, It was in a professional communication.
In retrospect, it wasn’t an outrageous misstep but it was unlike me. i take myself management pretty seriously.
So, i apologized. and we’re moving through it. Though there was information that instigated the reaction, appropriate to address, my reaction was out of scale, a bit strong.
i did need to set a better boundary, so fortunately, the oops and its subsequent reflection brought clarity.
A need for better boundaries on my sliding scale fees and perimeters for accepting clients. Life is full right now a bit too full, so i suppose its not surprising that a pileup of stressors brought this oversight to the surface and I’m grateful for that.
A need to care for myself better under it all. So the charge zap i got, & they got, brought forth an important shift in my work.
And, i haven’t written or even posted drawings in a bit, partly due to the accumulation, a clouding lens breaking my energetic connection.
So i’m taking some time to recharge my batteries. and sort out with this new clarity, what i’m up to next…
Here’s a little stream on Ground (edited spacing for readability)
Ground beneath my feet
Bare feet
it’s not a difficult feat to get my bare feet on the ground for a little while each day.
As a kid, barefoot much of the time in summer
i’m not sure how soon in spring my removal of shoes began or how far into the fall it lasted?
lasted, stretching something out, distributing it over time.
then licking the jar with a rubber spatula to get the last bit.
bit a small portion or an electronic measurement
measurement of what? what exactly is an electronic bit anyway?
i’ve Interrupted my regular little bit
posting every week…
i now, unsurprisingly, find it harder to get
a bit started when the pattern is spread out
farther apart.