Projects

We all have home projects that we try to work on from time to time. It maybe gardening, even if it means a window box or other planter on an apartment patio. There is always the cleaning of the garage.

For me it is the chickens and soon puppies. I have been cleaning out each room one by one, I still have to do my own. That is the hardest part. I need to throw out things that I don’t use or styles that have run their course, or just don’t fit. It feels great to purge my closets every once in a while.

My belly dancing has taken priority over my surfing in the last few months. In the end it all works together, if I slim down my midsection then I can be better on my board. When I go out to the beach then I can feel better about myself and feel calmed down again. The better I feel the better my writing will be. What’s funny is that even if I am in a bad mood and start to journal about it, since I am writing and that makes me happy; in the end my writing reaches a positive note.

When I get blocked in my writing or dancing, the solution is to do what I love. They are one and the same, so I stop writing what I have to and write for fun. If I am thinking too hard about my dance number and getting bogged down, I dance to another song just for fun and then go back to the number I am practicing.


All the projects help me feel a sense of accomplishment that I lack in other aspects of my life. While I have been getting some articles published, it’s my book project that hasn’t taken off as of yet. Instead of just waiting for a miracle to happen I do what I can to keep busy and be productive in my life.

I mention my projects to my friends not as a way to brag but so they are aware and I can’t just drop the ball without being accountable. It’s true my lack of attention to my surfing is going to show up the next time I go out, but so will the lightness I will feel being on the board and not being as heavy as I have been in the past. It’s still on my list of projects I am working on.