Tonight's picture was taken in January of 2004. Mattie was a year and a half old and I most likely snapped that photo back then because it captured some of the chaos all around us. Having a child is a major life change and the amount of things one accumulates in the process can be overwhelming. Certainly overwhelming when you have limited space and you are used to having order in your life. I do admit to needing organization in my life, but Mattie most definitely helped me embrace the beauty of being flexible. I learned to love books everywhere, Legos aplenty, and even toys that made noise.
Quote of the day: Turn down the volume of your negative inner voice and create a nurturing inner voice to take it’s place. When you make a mistake, forgive yourself, learn from it, and move on instead of obsessing about it. Equally important, don’t allow anyone else to dwell on your mistakes or shortcomings or to expect perfection from you. ~ Beverly Engel
It is hard to believe that in the middle of my daily chaos, I am also trying to run a Foundation. I honestly do not know how I do this most days without cracking up. As I am projecting forward to the Foundation's newsletters, I reached out today to several people to submit quotes or material for my to include in upcoming publications. In the process of these email correspondence, one person did respond right away and she let me know that she is traveling now for her own Foundation work and then shared one of her Foundation's latest endeavors. Her idea is a great one and I commended her for providing this important virtual resource to our community. Of course while acknowledging her accomplishment, the next thing happening internally in my head was this question...... why am I NOT doing this already? My negative self talk, as tonight's quote points out, needs a volume adjustment, as it can drown out rationalization at times.
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