Maybe that’s how I should deal with my inabilty to write well and express my thoughts clearly, I could just have my whjole blog scattered with links say, “yeh, what she said” linking to your posts. Since finding more of you women who write as beautifully and succinctly as you make art,

I find myself struggling constantly with my blog. I write huge reams of stuff some weeks and delete it all before posting because it’s such a garbled mess and the whole point of my blog was to have one place in my life that wasn’t messy.

I think I get something from at least trying to write it down, though, like having a conversation with someone, it moves your thoughts along in ways they may not go when they stay in your head. I frequently don’t know I think something until I hear myself say it. Or hear you say it, or hear Marjojo say it, or Lisa Solomon etc. etc.

That’s what I love, when you women say it the space remains clean, no mess, even when you may be talking about confusion, difficulties, or even cupboards of Doom (love that, i have a room of doom just now, though i call it the room of shame, Mr P has 2 of them).

I love the idea of your no guilt strategy, I do pretty major guilt and when I’m low on energy the guilt is so damned tiring. But I also suspect I’m like you in needing the guilt to get things done, so maybe I can try to conciously pick times for each. I had a thing that worked well a few years ago but I let it slide – money monday’s. I would set Monday aside to deal with all the crappy financial things, bills, tax, or general form filling which I hate. I was pretty strict with myself, no art and no ‘fun’ till the job is done. And I would treat it like a 9-5 job, if it’s not done I’m leaving it and not stressing till the next monday. Why did I give that up? I’ve no idea, I bet the sun came out!

But anyway, I like how you’ve set me back on the path of awareness about this stuff again, it’s important so I don’t waste my little energy in the wrong places. Ok, so now the right places, back to reading more of your back dated posts, wey hey.

Maybe that’s how I should deal with my inabilty to write well and express my thoughts clearly, I could just have my whjole blog scattered with links say, “yeh, what she said” linking to your posts. Since finding more of you women who write as beautifully and succinctly as you make art,

I find myself struggling constantly with my blog. I write huge reams of stuff some weeks and delete it all before posting because it’s such a garbled mess and the whole point of my blog was to have one place in my life that wasn’t messy.

I think I get something from at least trying to write it down, though, like having a conversation with someone, it moves your thoughts along in ways they may not go when they stay in your head. I frequently don’t know I think something until I hear myself say it. Or hear you say it, or hear Marjojo say it, or Lisa Solomon etc. etc.

That’s what I love, when you women say it the space remains clean, no mess, even when you may be talking about confusion, difficulties, or even cupboards of Doom (love that, i have a room of doom just now, though i call it the room of shame, Mr P has 2 of them).

I love the idea of your no guilt strategy, I do pretty major guilt and when I’m low on energy the guilt is so damned tiring. But I also suspect I’m like you in needing the guilt to get things done, so maybe I can try to conciously pick times for each. I had a thing that worked well a few years ago but I let it slide – money monday’s. I would set Monday aside to deal with all the crappy financial things, bills, tax, or general form filling which I hate. I was pretty strict with myself, no art and no ‘fun’ till the job is done. And I would treat it like a 9-5 job, if it’s not done I’m leaving it and not stressing till the next monday. Why did I give that up? I’ve no idea, I bet the sun came out!

But anyway, I like how you’ve set me back on the path of awareness about this stuff again, it’s important so I don’t waste my little energy in the wrong places. Ok, so now the right places, back to reading more of your back dated posts, wey hey.