Success is stumbling from failure to failure

Success is stumbling from failure to failure

If success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm is true, then I'm definitely in a failure slump. Recently, more than one creative project has left me feeling disappointed and again wondering why I bother to create anything. I know all the answers to that question, having been here before, but when you've invested months of effort and your "how am I gonna salvage this" plan lacks passion, what's one to do?

Soon I'll be visiting friends and family in another state. A change of scenery may do the trick. Walking away may create a clearer perspective. At the moment though I see only dark clouds. In the big scheme of things, I understand this moment means nothing. There are far greater challenges in the world. And that makes me want to cry too.

Thanks for listening.

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Disappointment

All day the lyrics to a song was stuck in my head. The one where they sing something about disappointment being my closest friend. Unlike in the song, I realized no one was going to come along and save me from the feeling down-hearted. I'd have to handle that myself. Its my "deal" anyway, right? No sense in expecting someone else to fix my mood. 

Speaking of expectations (which should probably be the topic of another entire post) . . . not stating my expectations clearly, only because I thought a bit of subtlety was in order, is how the trouble started in the first place.

Thankfully, the lyrics swirling in my head were finally replaced with my departed stepfather's voice saying, "I like to call a spade, a spade." Sounds, to me, like a title to a new song.

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