Working On It

This greeting card is sitting in my drawer.

It's been there for years.

I never send it to anyone.

It's for me, my reminder that there are others who find it difficult to let go of things, to say, "Finished!"

(The artist, Susan Mrosek, graciously gave me permission to use her image. .

You can find her fun quirky work at Pondering Pool. I'd buy her cards by the box full if I could afford it.)

So many things in my world seem to need to be "longer, rounder, tighter . . . and with a little more red." For instance, there's a blog post I've re-written half a dozen times and still haven't published.

Ah, perfectionism!

Thought I had a handle on that, but this blog, I do believe, is resurrecting it. So here's the deal. I will be writing something at least every two weeks (regardless of how red it isn't) and will provide links to interesting things I'm seeing at least every week. (Not exactly tearing up the blogisphere, I realize, but that's realistic for now.)

Thank you, dear friends, who've been kind enough to check in here. Hope you'll continue to.

On a related note, here's a link to a TED talk by Brene Brown (pronounced Brin-a) that I came across about a year ago. It's mesmerizing! She discusses vulnerability and its necessity in our lives for a host of interesting reasons. Seems an appropriate antidote for perfectionism to me. I have links to this one and to her follow up TED talk at the "Catch This" tab.

Blessings!
S.