I've written 21 of 31 July days for my daily writing practice. It's interesting to me to notice my own reactions to this news. When I began these summer daily writing projects, I was strict with myself about showing up every day to write and ship. One night, I even got out of bed because in the busy-ness of the day I'd forgotten to write.
I knew this summer would be challenging in different ways than other summers have been. A new house, a new job, anticipating the sale of my mother's house, a deadline for a new anthology, some more focused attention to my health and well-being in the middle of a lot of stress, and a hundred other little things. A friend suggested I might like to give myself permission to skip it this summer, but that did not feel like something I wanted to do.
Instead, I've been practicing some kindness toward myself. I don't get out of bed to write. I don't turn around when I'm headed upstairs for bed to write. I continue my practice of swimming in the morning as a priority. I'm fitting all the things in where they fit and I'm not worrying about it. Actually, I'm a little surprised with how relaxed I've been about most things.
That may be coming from the same well of kindness.
Tomorrow Has Become Yesterday is a daily writing practice that opens a landscape of discovery into my own human experience.
Katherine Cartwright has been blogging since 2012, and each year brings new wonders. She asks big questions about the small things in life.
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