🪷 Take Enough to Make

brief reflections on reformulating my values

It's our job as makers, as writers and singers and painters and dancers and actors

and those born to act as mirrors to a world that sought to contain us

inside a dogma meant only for the meek and compliant.

— JEANETTE LEBLANC

Growing up, I learned it’s best
to give more than I take.
Now I’m trying to learn
to take enough that I can make.

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Some things I’m learning to “take,” so that I have more energy and time to “make” (create/write):

• breaks

• advantage of spare or stolen moments

• attention away from managing others’ feelings and onto taking care of my own

• help that is offered

• help that I ask for

• help that is not perfect according to my standards

• help that I recruit from my kids

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My kids love making (and baking) things!

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In the notebook

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