it's a journey.

Not number one or chosen for this, or invited to that?
It's frustrating....
One choice is to spend today frustrated that you're not winning..the other choice is to focus on what you need to do today to win tomorrow.

Maya Lin

                                               Break it down. Focus on where you are going.

Time

A big part of doing your work is defending your time and your attention so you can do your work.

identify.

Minimalism is a term that has become overused and in many ways the word itself has been minimised to the point of glib.  Editing  may be a way to regain control over a life that is overbooked and feeling out of control, but before  editing - identify the essential.

1. Identify the essential. What’s most important to you? What makes you happy? What will have the highest impact on your life, your career?
2. Edit, edit. Minimalism isn’t an end point. It’s a constant process of editing, revisiting, editing some more.

connecting.

 I like to connect information.

 "keep it simple"   is my motto.

I also view myself as a reader of patterns and relationships -  and I ask a lot of questions. Why.. What.. How.. Where..

After a several year blogging break - I have once again taken flight on this personal yet public mark-making journey.  In encouragement to 'keep on going when the going gets tough' I  was reminded by one of my sons just the other day...that the most beautiful rivers are often crooked...I liked this comment..it helped me to remember that the beauty in life is found in the flows, the ebbs and the tides.

Andy Goldsworthy

layers

...How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream...Kahil Gibran.

lines.

The word linear comes from the Latin word linearis, which means created by lines. What does 'move forward' mean when you don't see time as linear?

beginnings.

There is something quite profound about silence. Reordering and structure appears in the space between the moments that are pregnant with activity.