My calendar is, again, a sea of black ink. I've got commitments for nearly every weekend through roughly October. What I should do on the handful of free days is pencil in a commitment to spend time on household things, since I still have not gone through the filing cabinet, finished hanging pictures, or organized the crafts supplies.
The past week did not help as I was in Los Angeles during the week for a work-related conference. I got home at 1:30 a.m. on Friday. I did sleep late on Friday morning and do a few chores when I got up. But I left again on Friday afternoon, driving down to Richmond for the Virginia Storytelling Alliance Gathering. I'd planned to drive down earlier and do a Volksmarch in Richmond, but the weather was rather threatening and, frankly, I needed the extra sleep. I thought I might do a walk today on the way back, but it was particularly dreary out.
The Gathering was fun and had me thinking about how effective a commitment to storytelling I have and haven't made. I don't really have anyone here to work on new material with the same way I did in Los Angeles. So, while I've done a few new things (especially since October), I haven't been pushing things as hard. I suspect that these things come in cycles and I feel like I have been entering a cycle of working on new material, so maybe this was just the nudge I needed.
Time to work on stories is probably one of the things I should be writing in on those bits of white space on the calendar.
Copyright 2007 Miriam H. Nadel