Thursday, April 13, 2017
It’s an Inside Job
It’s an Inside Job
Hi there.
How is your day going?
On a scale of 1 to 10.
10 being ‘marvellous’
and 1 being ‘not very marvellous at all’.
(euphemism for shite).
Mine started out at 10,
dipped to 4,
but we’re back up to 10 again.
Didn’t take long to catch myself,
let go of the thought that was winding me up
and get positive again.
Nobody else involved;
Didn’t take long to catch myself,
let go of the thought that was winding me up
and get positive again.
Nobody else involved;
I’VE BEEN ALONE ALL DAY !!!!
Today is art day.
Making projects for the New Design Clubs.
It’s my favourite thing to do too!
So why the dip? Why the melancholy intermezzo?
I wasn’t listening to sad music.
Wasn’t listening to radio 2,
interspersed with doom and gloom aka news.
No!
All I could hear was the birds outside.
Which all just goes to show it is an inside job.
It all goes on in my head; nowhere else.
I don’t need anybody else to wind me up;
I can do a perfectly good job all by myself.
Milton put it well...
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
? John Milton, Paradise Lost
? John Milton, Paradise Lost
Nothing changes.
No news - good or bad. Nothing.
No news - good or bad. Nothing.
Just me and the cat.
A few emails to and fro. Just business. A couple of niggles,
which I am quite good at right-sizing and dismissing nowadays.
But it takes effort to bat off negativity and stay upbeat.
I have to be vigilant the whole waking day.
If I can adopt an attitude of gratitude,
this helps put the barrier up against negativity.
Clearly, I let my guard down while engrossed in the artwork,
and in crept Ivan Axtogrind and his mates.
I have to be vigilant the whole waking day.
If I can adopt an attitude of gratitude,
this helps put the barrier up against negativity.
Clearly, I let my guard down while engrossed in the artwork,
and in crept Ivan Axtogrind and his mates.
My friend Shelagh gave me a most exquisite book recently:
The Red Tree
by Shaun Tan
The artwork is beautiful.
Very, very emotive illustrations.
It’s all about a little girl who wakes up in a bad headspace.
Her day is dark and it doesn’t get better.
She feels very low and isolated....
is struggling to understand what it’s all for.
the whole world seems to be against her.
and she doesn’t know who she is supposed to be
or what she is supposed to do.
She comes home, worn out after a very harrowing day,
only to find that what she was looking for was there the whole time.
It is a fantastic book.
Not many words. Mostly pictures.
But they speak volumes.
And yes.
it is most definitely
An Inside Job.
And gratitude is the key to my happiness.
Love & Gratitude always ,
Barb
xxx
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