Today I slept in just a little, got ready and did some chores, and went to see the show of imaginary brutalist architecture before it closed. It was great.
Then we went to Heritage Park for brunch (at 2:30… or whatever meal that is), then some errands, then watched Ad Astra (oh I did not like it and neither did anyone else…), and then….
I didn’t apply to an art show that was due today. I had a good piece. I could have stayed up and done it. Instead I cooked a bag of bokchoy that was in its last days and did yoga and ate a snack and I’m going to bed at 11:30 instead of midnight.
It would be really great to get an application in and see if it might have worked, but I’m very ok with doing the health stuff instead. My neck and shoulder are tender and stiff, but nowhere near the incapacitating pain they were at six months ago. I’m sleeping better than I used to, too, if not every night still overall. I feel physically ok and like I’m starting to balance that with the creative work I’m doing.
So it behooves me to miss stuff and skip stuff if I need to do these “for the body” things. It’s a long, long, lifelong balance, and I’ve always come down so unilaterally on the side of the art stuff that I might have some catching up to do in the physical needs department.
Oh and yes I suppose I could have not left the application until the day-of… but I’m looking for balance, not to become a different person 😜