Dad Luvs His Work.

From a James Taylor album, Dad Loves His Work a mindset like that and any equivalent utterance for any other position and/or situation brings a view saying what? I like what I do? Adressed to someone he care for, literally cares for. He/she, okay. The situation, the work is a meaningful "activity," a livelihood, a job one never quits, say a career, something beyond the ten thousand hours of mastery required. We each are given time. Dr. Viscott stated, "You haven't got five years? Come on." I love what I am doing. I hope you are too. If not, I hope you have ... hope in mind.

What I have done in the past is to love what I am doing, always w/ the idea that this could help someone in some way in an open-mind situation. This includes surveying (running the instrument as my ultimate goal), teaching college, painting houses, and a challenge-grocery store stocking shelves at night (finally figured it at learning odd/unusual/kosher foods adding that to my knowledge base to share w/ others looking for variety in diet. "Kale, kale, the gang's all here." More obvious jobs were helping students inner city and at risk learning math, a bookstore clerk situation, recommending "contemporary" books and a Course in Miracles at lunchtime, and tutoring at night alternating w/ masters swim team managing. Writing has as well an opportunity to practice unconditional love for "doing" and "being" something/someone. Hence the joy ("Yayin.") and the frustration and the other dichotomous feelings. Writing, my art and sharing w/ others by teaching and showing, involving, giving opportunities, my music (D. Byrne, "You can't "see" it til it's finished." A belief I hold dear unless w/ the intentions of teaching the culprit tending not to be spontaneous read "impulsive."

Music, art, and writing go well together w/ me. I am at my best when I have some projects well in hand, playing/performing/practicing one day on an instrument, down time the next w./ art/writing, the down time from ther rest for the comfortable transistions. To get up to speed I might write primarily 6 months, keeping an instrument w/ the status of honing up on it in two or three weeks (sometimes longer) to get up to par, dabbling w/ "commitment" at the easel w/ bigger projects ahead. I have recently shifted teaching people w/ emotional illness symptoms (at least historically) to taking the task of supporting people w/ addictions issues and mental wellness/illness issues to help in recovery creating supportive, safe "environments" of various sorts as the "seasoned horse" w/ the younger "race horse" under the wing. I have a need to watch my process behaviour to be free of process addiction since writing, making art, making music can for me and others prone to push the envelope to addiction. Like food addiction, it is not a matter of complete abstinence, rather a balanced moderation focusing on the word "healthy," and others; well, healing, making one whole, wellness, ... completeness.

Mantra/affirmation; I am complete and whole as I am. Blissfully.

Take on the new way to see things w/ the mind's eye! (It might bring oneself all the way back to the beginning.) ... Create!!!