The Artist's Way

Hello there. It's been far too long. Some of the things that are major that have happened in my world are the following:

• I have become a fulltime salaried employee at my job after my office was bought by a new hospice
• My immediate superior has resigned, which I feel mostly grateful for because se is very hard to work with
• My super head boss has also resigned, which is very sad to me because she has been an incredible person to work for and with
• I have still begun a process of looking for a job on the east coast in the same field I'm in now
• My cousin and a couple of her friends are planning a trip out here for June. It's going to be wonderful. My parents have only ever been out here twice. Once to move us out and once for our graduation.
  

I've also begun a group called "The Artist's Way", which is a very involved group at my Unitarian Universalist congregation. Some of the requirements are I have to wake up earlier everyday for 12 weeks and write "Morning Pages" which is three pages of long-hand stream-of-consciousness writing. You just write whatever comes to your mind. It does not have to eloquent or processed. It just has to be...for three pages. I've been fighting my inner critic. And tonight I went for a walk around my neighborhood with my camera and tripod and just took pictures of things I thought were beautiful.

I'm excited about letting my inner artist out to play more. Hopefully, I'll have more to share about that as the weeks roll by.

For now...goodnight.