Thorns and Roses
Well then. Another week has come and gone and here I sit with the task if weighing it out, sorting through, deciding what to put in the stew pot. Friday Afternoon Update number what? Wow. Time keeps on ticking, ticking, ticking, into the future, as Steve Miller pointed out some 33 years ago. Double wow. It sure does!
So it’s been quite a week. We’ve had roses, we’ve had thorns, and we’ve had everything in between. On the thorny edge it’s been rough navigating between the potentially all-consuming deeds of business.
Ha! Now there’s a sudden flash of real-i-zation, as opposed to organ-i-zation. Methinks I may have to do some deep looking at words some day soon. And for now it’s just a re-cognition of the busy-ness of my business, and the dead heart that is built into busy.
Which is ironic being that the chief victim of that busy-ness that comes with my business has been my primary relationship, so even as I have made the point to be relatively on top of making sure that I have some sort of a life outside of making this slow transition to successful self-employment, and in particular making sure that I don’t fall into a Cat’s in the Cradle trap regarding my relationship with Rowan, there have been challenges in the primary relationship that I have let slide, things that I could have been doing to enliven that relationship that I have been blinded to, or rather acting awfully dead hearted to.
Ack. Well this isn’t exactly dooce-ville, so I’ll leave it at that and say that noticing is really the biggest part of the game for me, that and acknowledging.
Okay. So I’m humbled. And contrite. And hopeful. Okay.
So in the roses department, aside from Noticing, and Acknowledging, I’m leading a few intrepid souls on a Spring Cleaning Safari, and Adventure into 7 days of exploration into cleaner and cleaner eating, 7 days of changing the habits of food. And along with the few that I am leading, another 4 or 5 souls, brave and independent, are making that journey on their own, using the guidelines which are available in the free tele-class and notes that you can access for a limited time in the sidebar of this blog.
That’s right. To everything there is a season, and it serves to reason that come June 21, Summer Solstice, longest day of the year up here in the northern hemisphere, there will be no more offering of a free Art of Spring Cleaning teleclass recording and notes, if not before. So grab it now. No reason to wait.
Stumped
Now. Here’s the real meat of the week. A place that I am stumped. Yep. You heard me right. Stumped. OMG. I know. WTF. Me? Stumped? What’s going on? Surely the end of days are upon us!
And what is it that is bringing this armageddon/2012 upon us? Well. It’s been 11 days since Rowan got his bike. And it’s been almost a week since he rode it. Rain, true. It’s been wet. And the bigger thing is that 3 or 4 days into it he pedaled over an uneven elevation challenge and took a spill. And now he’s afraid to get back on it.
What is a sensitive Papa to do? Be even more sensitive and patient I guess. Yikes. Will this ever end? he thinks. Yes. Oh yeah. Soon enough. And in the meantime I will hopefully not turn into Alan Alda!
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