Stoked!

I am really stoked! I finished the biographical statement to the grant. Phew! Blood, sweat and tears went into that little essay. (No, not really…just rubbed my eyebrows off.) I’m a few days late from a self-imposed deadline but I’m still good with the actual deadline which is next week. So the plan is to send out this grant application tonight. I’ll read over the essay on the train home, make any last minute changes, upload my poetry manuscript and essay onto the site, pay the fee and I’m done. I’m excited. Being the triple moon baby that I am, it’s only fitting that I send it out the night before a full moon. Yay!! Okay, I won’t celebrate quite yet, I’ll do a subdued happy dance until it’s actually done.

Let’s see what else? I have more packing to do this weekend but I SO DON’T WANT to tackle that this weekend. Tired of packing…I may leave it off for next week. When I’m freaking out next week, we will all know why. It’s supposed to be a mild day on Saturday. I’m in the mood to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. A long walk will do wonders for me. I’ll bring a sketchbook and some pencils…awww I just remembered I packed them away….argh! I may have to open up some boxes and dig them out. Or better yet, I’ll just bring a notebook to write in and bring my camera. Oh and I have a couple books I want to finish. Easy breezy. I know it seems like I’m thinking out loud here…well mostly it’s because that’s exactly what I’m doing. All for now.
Peace,

Lily

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I took the day off of work on Tuesday. After a pretty painful morning, I was able to move on to work on the grant application from noon until 4:30 pm. Having that focused time to work on the application was necessary. I could hear myself think. I have the poetry portion prepped and ready to go. I worked on the essay for some time but I needed to give it a rest. I found myself repeating things needlessly. I’ll take another crack at it today to see if I can come to a more completed version. I’m plugging along.

Today is a cold wet day in the city and despite wanting to hibernate most of the winter… I feel my energy rising. I feel my interior life waking up. Most of the winter, I felt low-key and downright blue but as the days start to grow longer and the temperature starts to warm up (a tad), I want to do more, take on more of this creative life. I want more time to write. More time to paint. And I am taking advantage of any spare moments I can find. Yet, I still found some time to watch Glee last night. That boy on boy kiss was very sweet and so hot!! Yay!!

Peace,

Lily~

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Wired and Tired

A very generous friend was going to buy me a plane ticket to travel to China in June. Unfortunately, those plans fell through. C’est la vie. I think in the past a disappointment like this would have spiraled me into the abyss but I have to say it definitely doesn’t feel like that to me at all today. Instead, I feel grateful for the offer having been made at all. However, this setback has me focused on getting some much needed vacation time, away from the office, away from the city either at an ashram or to visit some friends in Vermont. I need time to decompress. I’ve been both wired and tired for a long time. So I’ll figure plans out in the coming weeks.

This weekend was about errands and family dinners. We celebrated my sister’s birthday at one of our favorite restaurants. Party of ten please. My little nieces behaved themselves in our two-hour celebration, hoorah! I realized that my oldest niece is turning 15 years old this year. Holy Hell!! REALLY?! In three years she’ll be off to college. I’m not quite ready for that reality but ready or not here it comes. I can’t stave off progress.

So my plans for this week are to finish off the grant application by Wednesday and start writing a few more lines on my second story idea. No writing group this week so I’ll work on my own. Then next week, I’ll take out Indigo and start revising that piece. I am excited and nervous about working on it. All for now…I have to get my day started at work.

Peace,


L~

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