I wanted to go the the Ringling Museum in Sarasota (http://www.ringling.org/) to see the Kimono display. I wanted to plant plants because it finally warmed up. I wanted to rake leaves and I wanted to work on my jewelry project. I wanted to finish reading my book.
None of those things got done. I transplanted one plant, walked the dog, and spent hours and hours photographing my work and writing a required art bio on myself. While I was at it, I listed some of the things I photograped on Etsy.
A couple of hours ago, I would have said it was all a huge waste of time but now I'm not so sure. Reviewing the last 26 years of my clay career has forced me to recognize that I HAVE done something. I DO know a lot and I don't doubt my work - well not as much, anyway. Oh, and it didn't hurt to see that people had actually looked at my work shortly after it was posted!
By the end of this evening, I am going to have finished at least one creative thing, which will be this posting! When I look at the huge list of things I want to do and things I have to do I always feel like I didn't do anything.
Now I know that's just plain wrong. Sometimes you just have to take care of business and things move forward on their own.
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I feel you! As a lister, it never feels like I'm doing enough, because the list never stops getting longer, but in retrospect it really is amazing how much gets done. It's just never what I "wanted" to do. This is one of those appreciate-the-moment lessons that I struggle with all the time.
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