Spent the bulk of the day creating a TREASURE MAP (per Susan’s suggestion) that would help me refocus on all that’s working well.
I may not have an enneagram type, but I definitely am the sort who is often 99% focused on the 1% that isn’t working. Not in annnoying way to others –– like when directing actors or teaching –– but more to myself in daily life.
Starting the Treasure Map process, I already knew the result/outcome of the exercise –– that I would realize how awesome things really are for me right now –– and I was psyched for that experience. However, it was totally redonkulous.
Never before has so much been going so right –– and yet I realize all the more how disproportionately I am focused on the uncertainties and the “challenges.” [I must re-read my old Diary Entry about “forgetting.”]
I did really get into the process and rather than drawing, I used photographic images that I printed out. Soon the entire couch was covered with them. [What I’m saying is that even the poster-sized paper Susan had wasn’t enough; too many amazing things are happening.]
Then I also started adding some baseline stuff –– the take it for granted stuff ranging from Health to Great Friends, even a Yale degree and being able to play the piano –– and, of course, beyond publishing a book about her lessons, Belle herself.
And after going to see my friend Katharine Otis in THE UNDERSTUDIES (a comic re-interpretation of Genet’s THE MAIDS), I found myself inspired at 11 pm to stay up until 2 am making a video slideshow of all the images. [This was for both intensified emotional impact, plus I’m not sure how practical a couch-sized treasure map is going to be.]
Speaking of heightened challenges, even on our abbreviated beach walk, Belle still managed to find a massive log which she absolutely gave her Very Best Efforts to try to use for Fetch.
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