by Teresa
We talk a great deal about balance on this blog. It’s a recurring them: trying to achieve some sense of balance in our over-committed, crazy lives.
We all give lip service to the knowledge that we can’t do everything. Yet I, for one, try and beat myself up when I fail. I’m constantly finding new and exciting things to add to my already busy life. They’re legitimately good things: new writing opportunities, making raspberry jam, doing more promotion for my books, spending time with friends and family. But I can’t do them all. I’m not twenty any more. I need to sleep. Recently and reluctantly, I’ve realized I need to cut back on some of what I’m doing.
Picking strawberries anywhere other than my own yard didn’t happen this year. We may bail on an long-anticipated summer party next weekend. That one’s due to car trouble, but I confess to some relief at a weekend at home mixed in with my disappointment. Dance class has largely fallen by the way side, though I hope to get back to it when time permits. It’s fun and both the exercise and the socializing are healthy, but when I include the drive, it’s four hours a week I can ill spare.
And I’m stepping down from this blog. I’ll still be reading, and I hope to come back if my schedule ever calms down. The posts only come every ten days or so, but every little bit helps.
Maybe I’ll actually get my house clean. Nah, that’s still unlikely. But I bet I can use the time to write my own stories, or knit, or garden, or cook something fabulous. And maybe I’ll even have time to blog about it.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said, “I can’t do what I could do when I was __ years old.” (You insert the age ) We will certainly all miss your posts and your comments!
I’ll keep checking back in here now and again. Summer is a great time to take a break and regroup. Cheers ~