I'm not really a procrastinator, I just have a long up time (gestation for creativity) and I'm quite busy. I've never had a hard time leaving a job when I have to and coming back to it, though I am so compulsive that if nothing slaps my brain, I may work non-stop on a project sans food or sleep or productive communication. So over the last year and a half, my world has been project heavy, finish light. I've been bringing many of my projects to a close and it feels good, but I have so many more in the wings.
The eureka? I have the ability to see projects as complete when they are in process. It keeps me inspired through the mundane and it makes me more encouraging to my students. I've never seen a problem with that characteristic. Until today.
I am reconstructing a river rock patio and rock retaining wall by my studio. It's been torn up with the construction and still is to a degree. I'm tickled with it because I know what it will look like.
I'm building and changing on the hill, but it's okay that it's not finished, because I see what it will become. I have small rock piled up on the retaining wall at the bottom of the hill to create and surface two pillars beside my trail up the hill. That doesn't bother me because I can see it completed.
I've finally come up with a solution to my "clean-out pipe" dilemma and I'm so excited about doing it. It will take time, but . . .
I realized that my world is full of things to do which I respect because of insight. On the surface, they don't look that good in the process. When I tell those who see them what I have in mind, they are polite, but they don't get it. If they come again when it's finished, then they get it.
Perhaps one day, I'll learn to not drag people out to my ongoing, unfinished projects with the excitement of a 2nd grader on the first day of school. There really is enough to see without my interference.
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