Happy New Year to you all! This year has begun powerfully and slowly for me, and I am excited to see all it will bring! Many blessings to you and your loved ones. Enjoy this year of Badassery and Mastery in anyway you chose. :)
Exactly one week in to this new year of badassery and mastery feels very symbolic for the day I picked work back up on my non-fiction book. I worked for 45 minutes and got through editing the first page. Maybe this wil be a little more work than I thought. Maybe it is not as close to being finished as I thought. Maybe I had to step away from it for as long as I did to allow for the passage of time and whatever newness in me that took that time to grow, to be ready to step back into the book and address its concepts and sentences with these new eyes and thoughts. I am optimistic about it. I have faith it will get done. Working on it today reminded me of working on it last fall, when I felt like I was doing something right and productive by spending my time steadily moving forward on its progression. Progress. Yes. And though it may not be for a while, it would also do me well to have faith that I will be able to recognize when it comes to a stopping point. When to call it done and walk away from the editing process. For I could see me possibly struggling with wanting to declare it done, just wanting to go over it ONE MORE TIME, just to MAKE SURE I didn't miss ANYTHING. So, I will also just go ahead and see myself contentedly submitting the finished draft to publishers, my friends, my family, and see the finished copy on the shelves of stores. I believe this can be done by me. I also believe this needs to be done by me. I am ready and willing to bring this book into being. It will continue to morph and coagulate until it is in the form it will take on those shelves and in the hands of my publisher. I can't tell you how relieved I am that I have chosen to once again give myself permission to begin work on this. I feel it gives me purpose. And that it a powerful thing, indeed.
slainte!
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