I knew I had writing my biweekly blog post on my list for today. I procrastinated. I’d just had a conversation with my husband and creative partner about which part of which days were each of us using our shared studio and workshop, which days either of us was at each of our individual desks for photography work (him) or writing/worship planning (me) or researching (him) or drawing (me) or crafting (both) or not… Resting? Wandering? Time with family? Friends? Time to de-stress and strategize about the international news?
We’d had a wonderful creative conversation last Friday at dinner when we planned amazing new artwork for us both. At this point in our day, this week, Friday last week seemed like eons ago and I could hardly recall. I had to plan. Most of you know that planning is as much in my nature as painting. I had to know how it all and how we fit. We’ve been spending over a year finding out how we fit in a new culture, new bureaucracy, family patterns, church routines and gym schedules. But we hadn’t really sorted how we fit with each other’s aspirations and focus and how we fit in those jigsaw pieces with everything else. I made a weekly plan! It has a big winking face at the top, letting in the reality of every day’s likelihood of having something unexpected, but we have a default! It at least lets us know the first steps in the morning, so we’re both pleased. His grin was a thing to behold.
This little jigsaw came out of work I did to illustrate an online learning program on a faith filled life. Its final version has a group of people walking on it trying to see where they fit (!).
