Studio Hours : Day 04 | RESHCEDULED
Well, it was Monday, and Studio Hours were scheduled for 10am, and unfortunately other things took priority. The morning began with a late wake up and a mad dash to get ready, out the door, and to the first day of summer camp. From there, I just kept dashing about my day from one thing to the next and the hour I had been holding on my calendar for my creative practice got swallowed up by the other things on my todo list. Initially I just thought I’d snooze my alarm (set to remind me to get ready for studio hours) once or twice and begin a little late. But as soon as that happened I felt off kilter and being in the middle of something for a client I decided to keep working and wait until I finished the task at hand so I could begin studio hours feeling a sense of completion. Unsurprisingly, the client task took longer than expected and before I knew it my alarm reminding me to pickup my kids from camp went off. By the time we got home, I realized I wasn’t going to make it to Studio Hours today.
I’m touching in here at 8:55pm to bare witness to the second time Studio Hours have been missed. Acknowledging the part of me that is feeling the sting of failure, I will remind her that:
The whole idea of this experiment is to see what happens, to be with what arises, to keep showing up, especially when it isn’t what we planned on, how we wanted it to go, or what we were expecting. This is the experiment. This is part of the process. This is the creative witnessing practice.
So, tomorrow, we begin again, again.
