sketch a day: day seven

I keep missing days...or time to sketch.

To catch up with the day, I'm going to be practicing the 24 hour Mini Mindful Moment Challenge. Hopefully, this will last longer than 24 hours--though I've had a harder time wrapping my head around the purpose and "how to" of meditation in the past. I like that the challenge works in steps: attention to the body, the feelings, the thoughts, and then letting go; I might be able to do that.

I can already see, in the new job, my patterns resurfacing: working before and after work, forgetting to take a lunch break, stressing out about things I can't control. I'm working hard to stop overworking. And we're lucky that Jesse's getting home earlier, we have wild mint growing all over the backyard, and we're trying to remind ourselves that even our imperfections (like being a complete stress mess) are somehow lovely. 

We think it's spearmint and not mint, based on smell. Either way, FANTASTIC that there's so much of it.

In the garden, trying to learn how to let things grow and how to let go a bit, I keep trying to think that all the trimming and weeding, all of the work is a bit like what I need to be doing: trimming, letting things go a bit wild, and valuing the fact that I can't control it--especially the mint that's growing like crazy! There's this sense of hope in our little garden that makes me think I can "get back to" a more playful state that enables me to drop a lot of my type A tendencies. We'll see.

“Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

- Albert Einstein